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Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

10 best books like Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World (Holly Morris): The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile, Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road, A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World

The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
AuthorAlden Jones
ISBN0299295702
Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar. By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience...
Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa
AuthorTanya Shaffer
ISBN1400032598
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
AuthorBarbara Hodgson
ISBN1580084419
While it's a noticeable improvement over my last attempt at reading a book about female travelers, No Place for a Lady still wasn't what I was hoping for.

My main disappointment was the book's superficial feel. Some of that likely has to do with its location-based organization, which turns...
To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism
AuthorChuck Thompson
ISBN0805087885
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and—most terrifying of all—at Disney World

In the widely-acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now he's out to discover if some of...
Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile
AuthorSara Wheeler
ISBN0375753656
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...
Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
AuthorAlice Steinbach
ISBN0812973607
This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbach’s greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations, this Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun quit her job and left home again....
Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad
AuthorChristina Henry De Tessan
ISBN1580050700
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road
AuthorJennifer L. Leo
ISBN1885211929
Travel isn’t always what we dream it will be, but...oh the stories that follow! For the 25 women in this book who packed their sense of humor as they traveled from Alaska to Zanzibar, the journey brought tales of misadventure that their children and grandchildren, and readers of this book, will never...
A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust
AuthorMarybeth Bond
ISBN1932361146
"Passion: any kind of feeling or emotion—hope, fear, joy, grief, anger, love, desire—when vehement, overwhelming or of compelling force."

In this followup to the award-winning A Woman's World, meet women from all stages of life—college students and grandmothers, old friends and...
Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
AuthorRita Golden Gelman
ISBN0307588017
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has...
Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo
AuthorBeth Whitman
ISBN0978728092
This comprehensive guide for women travelers is filled with safety tips, anecdotes, resources and information on how to start planning a dream journey. The book dispels the myths that solo travel is dangerous and provides straightforward advice on making the most of your travels while having the...
Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World Solo
AuthorFaith Conlon
ISBN1580051995
There is nothing quite like hitting the road by yourself to awaken your senses, sharpen your mind, and build your confidence. In twenty-three beautifully crafted essays, women recount the thrills of traveling solo.

Despite threat-assessment levels and airport-security hassles, women...
Unpacked: Travel Disaster Stories by Tony Wheeler and Other Lonely Planet Authors
AuthorTony Wheeler
Every traveler has a horror story to tell: lost luggage, bad weather, illness or worse. In this lively collection of travel disaster tales, Lonely Planet writers share their worst moments of life on the road.
From Kenya to Sri Lanka, from Brazil to Finland, from the Australian outback to India,...
So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places
AuthorElinor Burkett
At a time when Americans were so riveted by questions about their place in a newly hostile world and were swearing off air travel, Elinor Burkett did not just take a trip -- she took a headlong dive into enemy territories.Her yearlong odyssey began with her assignment as a Fulbright Professor teaching...
Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me
AuthorLisa Fineberg Cook
ISBN1439110034
Six days after an InStyle-worthy wedding in Los Angeles, Lisa Fineberg Cook left behind her little red Jetta, her manicurist of ten years, and her very best friend for the land of the rising sun. When her husband accepted a job teaching English in Nagoya, Japan, she imagined exotic weekend getaways,...
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers
AuthorMary Morris
ISBN0679740309
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices, they write of disguising themselves as men for safety, of longing for family left behind or falling...
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places
AuthorKlara Glowczewska
ISBN0143112619
From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers

Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers a particularly transporting body of work, pairing exotic locales with writers of the highest caliber:...
Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna
AuthorChina Galland
ISBN0140195661
Read China Galland's posts on the Penguin Blog

With this book, China Galland brought increased attention to the spiritual traditions of the Black Madonna and other cross-cultural expressions of the feminine divine. The popularity of recent works by authors like Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen...
The Lives of Beryl Markham
AuthorErrol Trzebinski
ISBN0393312526
Drawing on her own long association with Markham, as well as diaries, letters, and interviews, Errol Trzebinski unravels the complexities of one of the century's great personalities.

Markham's memoir, West with the Night, was rediscovered in 1983 and became an instant bestseller, though...
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World
AuthorLavinia Spalding
ISBN1609520599
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel...
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