Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
10 best books like Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman (Alice Steinbach): Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy, From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant, Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella, Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World, Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road, On Mexican Time: A New Life In San Miguel, Gutsy Women: Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road, Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria
| Author | Michael Tucker |
| ISBN | 0871139626 |
The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-fifty-year-old rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto...
| Author | Michael S. Sanders |
| ISBN | 0060959207 |
From Here,You Can't See Paris is a sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of chef Jacques...
| Author | David Shalleck |
| ISBN | 0767920481 |
“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...
| Author | Mary Morris |
| ISBN | 0312199414 |
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....
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...
| Author | Holly Morris |
| ISBN | 0375760636 |
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited...
| Author | Jennifer L. Leo |
| ISBN | 1885211929 |
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...
| Author | Tony Cohan |
| ISBN | 0747553653 |
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...
| Author | Marybeth Bond |
| ISBN | 1885211155 |
This is an indispensable handbook full of information that can save you time, trouble and maybe even your life. Women make up the largest segment of the traveling population and many of them are choosing to travel alone. When I was a student for a summer session in England I walked the streets of London...
| Author | Mark Rotella |
| ISBN | 0865476969 |
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy
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a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria...
HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel...
| Author | Carol Drinkwater |
| ISBN | 0142001309 |
When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancé, cute Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the couple embark on an adventure that brings them...
| Author | Laura Fraser |
| ISBN | 0375724850 |
When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual...
| Author | Michael Palin |
| ISBN | 0312243995 |
One hundred years after the birth of Ernest Hemingway, Michael Palin sets out to discover the man behind the legend: a hard-drinking womanizer who liked cats and shooting -- but wrote like a dream and left an idelible impression on the twentieth century through his work.
Fueled by intensive reading...
| Author | Mark Greenside |
| ISBN | 1416586873 |
Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside reluctantly travels, eats of the crêpes, and finds a second...
| Author | Polly Evans |
| ISBN | 0385339925 |
Single, stressed, and living amid the hustle and hurry of modern Hong Kong, Polly Evans had a vision: of mountains and orange groves, matadors and promenades–and of a glorious, hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle. But like any decent dream, Polly’s came with its own reality: of thighs...
| Author | Dario Castagno |
| ISBN | 0762736704 |
Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping...
| Author | Frances Mayes |
| ISBN | 0767905350 |
From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at home,...
| Author | Annie Hawes |
| ISBN | 0140294236 |
A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer they can't refuse. The laugh is on the Foreign Females...
| Author | Kristin Espinasse |
| ISBN | 0743287282 |
Based on the popular blog (french-word-a-day.com) and newsletter with thousands of subscribers -- a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two very French children with her French husband in Provence, carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language. Imagine a former French...
| Author | Linda Ellerbee |
| ISBN | 0425209733 |
I was given this book for my birthday and I wrote about it in my blog. I quoted part of the first chapter because Ellerbee wrote about a restaurant in Florence, Italy, and I knew exactly which place she meant. Further, I had taken a photograph of the entrance to the restaurant: it features a small table, set...
| Author | Ruth Silvestre |
| ISBN | 0749015985 |
I really loved this book! I felt like I really got to know the author and her family and the friends they made when they spent summers at their sunny house in southwestern France next to fields and a pond. The book covers several years of summers, so there is a progression through various projects, times...
| Author | Daniel Glick |
| ISBN | 1586482378 |
After losing his brother to cancer and a painful divorce that left him the sole charge d'affaires of two decidedly spirited children, environmental reporter Daniel Glick knew he and his little family desperately needed some karmic rejuvenation. He opted for an epic adventure. In the summer of 2001,...
