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10 best books like All Over the Map (Laura Fraser): As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey, If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World, One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children, The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life, Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer

As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey
AuthorAlan Epstein
A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to...
If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World
AuthorKristine K. Stevens
In honor of her 40th birthday, Kristine K. Stevens sold her house, quit her job and traveled solo around the world.

Carrying a backpack and the naïve belief that the trip was nothing more than a six-month-long vacation, she hit the road. As her journey moved on and off the beaten tourist path,...
One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
AuthorDavid Elliot Cohen
ISBN1885211651
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to make it a reality. With his wife and three children,...
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...
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
AuthorEve Brown-Waite
ISBN0767929357
In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him —literally–to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without...
Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
AuthorLisa Napoli
ISBN0307453022
Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the ancient Himalayan...
360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World
AuthorJohn Higham
ISBN1593501080
Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen”—a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four.

After more than a decade of planning,...
A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
AuthorMelinda Blanchard
This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs, and...
Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India
AuthorMiranda Kennedy
ISBN1400067863
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s...
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer
AuthorMireya Mayor
ISBN1426207212
A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist...
Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella
AuthorDavid Shalleck
ISBN0767920481
“Saturday was dawning warm, with only a gentle wind under a light blue sky as we got under way. . . . With the motor cut out, I could hear the whispered splash of the sea against the hull as we knifed through the Mediterranean. The calming noise, along with the gentle rocking, lulled me into a Zen calm as...
Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
AuthorMary Morris
ISBN0312199414
Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of Guatemala, Mary Morris, a celebrated writer of both fiction and nonfiction, confronts the realities of place, poverty, machismo, and selfhood....
A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe
AuthorFaith Conlon
The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian...
Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents
AuthorElisabeth Eaves
ISBN1580053114
Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves's insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she crisscrosses five continents and chases the...
On Mexican Time: A New Life In San Miguel
AuthorTony Cohan
ISBN0747553653
This is one of those expatriot memoirs where an American or Brit pulls up stakes to live la bella vita--or the simpler life--in some warm clime. Think Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun or Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence, usually told oh so lyrically, eruditely, with lots of literary allusions and...
The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure
AuthorAnn Vanderhoof
ISBN0385663366
A follow-up to the national bestseller An Embarrassment of Mangoes, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband navigate the Caribbean on a sailboat, discovering local culture in each tiny port, and collecting sumptuous original recipes along the way.

Spices and herbs are the heart and soul of Caribbean...
The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife
AuthorJanna Cawrse Esarey
ISBN1416589082
The humorous true story of a woman who abandons her tidy life to honeymoon across the Pacific on a leaky, old boat—only to find that sailing 17,000 miles is easier than keeping her relationship off the rocks.

“Somewhere fifty miles off the coast of Oregon I realize the skipper of this very...
The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
AuthorRachel Friedman
Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has never visited. There she forms an unlikely...
Only Pack What You Can Carry: My Path to Inner Strength, Confidence, and True Self-Knowledge
AuthorJanice Holly Booth
ISBN1426207336
Magnetically written by former CEO of a North Carolina Girl Scout Council and award winning CEO for the Western New York chapter of a national arts-in-education organization, this uniquely engaging travel journal describes four keys to unlocking personal and spiritual fulfillment: solitude,...
A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
AuthorSuzanna Clarke
ISBN0091925223
When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated house in the Moroccan town of Fez, their friends thought they were mad. Located in a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, the house - a traditional riad - was beautiful but in desperate need of repair. Walls were in danger of collapse, the plumbing non-existent....
Whose Panties Are These?: More Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road
AuthorJennifer L. Leo
ISBN1932361111
Following on the heels of the successful Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road comes another collection of hilarious travel stories by women. From America to Australia to everywhere in between, the true stories in Whose Panties are These? will have you shaking your...
Spain...A Culinary Road Trip
AuthorMario Batali
ISBN0061560936
From Mario Batali, superstar chef and author of Molto Italiano and Italian Grill, comes an eating tour throughout Spain with his friend Gwyneth Paltrow.

Spain...A Culinary Road Trip is the companion book to the prime-time public television series Spain...On The Road Again. The premise...
Life Is a Trip: The Transformative Magic of Travel
AuthorJudith Fein
ISBN0981870880
The reasons why we who are travelers do so are probably as varied as we are. Just as the places to which we travel and the ways in which we travel can differ widely, no doubt, so do the resulting experiences. I, too, am a traveler, and for me, the travel experience is always transformative. I have never gone...
Gringos in Paradise: An American Couple Builds Their Retirement Dream House in a Seaside Village in Mexico
AuthorBarry Golson
ISBN0743276353
"A Year in Provence" meets "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" in this lively and entertaining account of a couple's year building their dream house in Mexico.In 2004, Barry Golson wrote an award-winning article for "AARP" magazine about Mexican hot spots for retirees longing for a lifestyle they...
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
AuthorKira Salak
ISBN0792274172
A Restless Women Travelers title

Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea—often called the last frontier of adventure travel. Traveling by dugout canoe and on foot, confronting the dangers and...
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