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Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World

10 best books like Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World (Rita Golden Gelman): Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith, City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska, A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World, 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

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....
The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith
AuthorStephanie Saldana
ISBN0385522002
A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning.

When Stephanie Saldana arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and a haunted family history that she has crossed...
City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less
AuthorNina Willdorf
ISBN1402200544
Urban Girls work hard and play even harder. They have an eye for style that is only slowed by a budgetary bottom line. They live the lifestyles of the not-at-all-rich and the not-just-yet-famous. Soon enough, they will be superstars, oozing savoir-faire. But for now, before they assume the helm of the...
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...
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
AuthorMiranda Weiss
ISBN0061710253
Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice's mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier" with good reason: Here is a paradoxical landscape where boundaries—between community and isolation, bounty and deprivation,...
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...
Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
AuthorHolly Morris
ISBN0375760636
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...
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...
100 Places Every Woman Should Go
AuthorStephanie Elizondo Griest
ISBN1932361472
With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go encourages women of any age to see the world — in a group, with a friend, or solo — and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations of many countries, states, and regions, and on interviews...
Married to Bhutan
AuthorLinda Leaming
ISBN1401928463
       Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan—a tiny, landlocked country bordering China and India. Impossibly remote and nearly inaccessible, Bhutan is rich in natural beauty, exotic plants and animals, and crazy wisdom. It is a place where people are genuinely content...
The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Grace Under Pressure: Extreme Etiquette for the Stickiest, Trickiest, Most Outrageous Situations of Your Life
AuthorKim Izzo
ISBN0767915488
Every Fabulous Girl knows that elegant manners, proper thank-you notes, the perfect pair of shoes, and basic social savoir faire will get you through many, if not most, of life’s occasions. But what about those special situations that every girl encounters—the wince-inducing, hair-curling...
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,...
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...
A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild
AuthorJennifer Bove
ISBN1932361375
The stories in this remarkable collection detail the experiences of women who work in a variety of outdoor professions including smoke jumping, river running, professional falconry, and horse packing. A celebration of women making their way in the wild, the stories in these pages include rescuing...
River House
AuthorSarahlee Lawrence
ISBN0982569130
An exquisite blend of memoir and nature writing, River House is the story of a young woman returning home to her family’s ranch and building a log house with the help of her father. An avid river rafter, Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and, by the age of twenty-one, had rafted some of...
Multicultural Manners: Essential Rules of Etiquette for the 21st Century
AuthorNorine Dresser
ISBN0471684287
The "Multicultural Manners" columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Dresser has written a lively and entertaining guide on the etiquette necessary for effective and comfortable cross-cultural exchange. She addresses multicultural manners relating to food, time, body language, male/female relations...
A Journey of One's Own: Uncommon Advice for the Independent Woman Traveler
AuthorThalia Zepatos
ISBN0933377525
Originally published in 1992, with a second edition in 1996, A Journey of One’s Own has sold over68,000 copies. Praised by travel experts across the spectrum, from Glamour to The Women’s Review of Books, from The Whole Earth Catalog to American Express, U.S. News and World Report, and Parade, and...
Take Me With You
AuthorBrad Newsham
ISBN0553814486
'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.'

Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this in his journal. Fourteen years later, he's a Yellow Taxi driver working in San Francisco. He's not rich, but...
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