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Gutsy Women: Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road

10 best books like Gutsy Women: Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road (Marybeth Bond): Curses! Broiled Again!, 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, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World, Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo

Curses! Broiled Again!
AuthorJan Harold Brunvand
ISBN0393307115
Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard—or you yourself may have told—two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection.


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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...
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN1932361448
Yikes, just when I had read one in this series that rated average, it slipped back down to below average again. And to add insult to injury, this book shared some stories with some of their other books that I've read (Whose Panties are These, Sand in my Bra, and more). I mean, if you don't have time enough to...
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...
Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives
AuthorSadie Smith
ISBN0756653991
Off the Tourist Trail is a guide to the world's unspoiled sights and experiences. It takes a hundred clichéd tourist destinations - everything from over-visited national parks to overrated museums - and reveal 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternative options. Written by a team of travel experts,...
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...
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth
AuthorPhil Stanton
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: A Rough Guide to the World with 1000 must-do experiences from around the world.

Make the Most of Your Time on Earth is a book that will inspire everyone. Perfect for both the seasoned traveller and the armchair dreamer, it brings you the very best travel experiences...
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...
Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
AuthorAnastasia M. Ashman
ISBN1580051553
As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective...
There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
AuthorDoug Lansky
ISBN1932361278
The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely not the memorable trip, which is where everything goes wrong and one lives to tell the tale — and laugh about it. This collection captures the wackiest and most bizarre experiences of well-known writers whose travels have taken a detour. Stories...
The Risks of Sunbathing Topless: And Other Funny Stories from the Road
AuthorKate Chynoweth
ISBN1580051413
If they could it do it all over again, they might not... so it's a good thing they can't, because then we wouldn t hear about Marrit Ingman s disastrous honeymoon in Maui; Sunset editor Allison Aves s eco-escapades in Costa Rica, where she meddled in the love unions of nesting turtles, catching eggs as they...
The Smart Traveler's Passport
AuthorErik Torkells
ISBN1594741778
Travel Smart!
 
The Smart Traveler’s Passport is a collection of 399 of the best travel tips you’ll ever read, compiled from the pages of Budget Travel magazine. You’ll learn:
 
     •  13 different uses for Ziploc bags
     •  How dental floss can...
Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
AuthorJake Halpern
ISBN0618446621
“Part travelogue . . . part meditation on the meaning of home” (Wall Street Journal), Braving Home introduces readers to some of modern America’s most unusual, unforgettable pioneers. The cub reporter Jake Halpern — dubbed the Bad Homes Correspondent by his colleagues — sets out on a journey...
Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening
AuthorVivian Swift
ISBN1632860279
God I love Vivian Swift’s books. They are enchanting. Later, just a few hours after finishing it, I was staring into a garden around City Hall and the Tweed Courthouse. It was night and fireflies came out. I never see fireflies, I was so thrilled, and it was all so magical and lovely and I thought, I’m...
The Prairie Traveler
AuthorRandolph Barnes Marcy
ISBN0918222893
This was good old book. It was interesting to realize that it was probably the only book available to help new pioneers cross the plains. They would have to rely on it and read it and follow it to get across rivers, deal with Indians and know what to do in emergencies in the middle of the unknown world of the...
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...
Work Your Way Around the World
AuthorSusan Griffith
ISBN1854583298
The thirteenth edition of the unique and acclaimed guide for the working traveller, which explains how to find temporary work around the world, not only in advance, but also when on the spot while travelling. It incorporates hundreds of first-hand accounts from people who have actually done the jobs,...
What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers
AuthorAndrew Thompson
ISBN1569758921
Falling in love is a complicated, messy, mad endeavor -- and staying in love is even worse. But while bitter experience and brutal statistics may tell us that it will probably all end in tears, we still continue to believe in and pursue romance, even if it means losing sleep, friends, or sanity in the process....
The Great Thoughts
AuthorGeorge Seldes
ISBN0345404289
Upon its publication, George Seldes's The Great Thoughts instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages.  Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher,...
Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town
AuthorDouglas Frantz
ISBN0805055614
What is it like to start a new community-not a suburb or a subdivision, but a town, intended to be a self-supporting community that combines the best of the new technological innovations and the most cherished nostalgic elements of American towns? In 1997, six months after the first residents relocated...
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