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Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers

10 best books like Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (Mary Morris): Bad Trips, Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan, Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets, Reclaiming Travel, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, The Best American Travel Writing 2009, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour, The Size of the World, Whose Panties Are These?: More Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road

Bad Trips
AuthorKeath Fraser
ISBN0394221516
As with any anthology, this collection of travel stories includes a range of quality. Some of these stories are quite good, transporting the reader to a specific place and time, immersing us in the writer’s experiences. Others are a bit more pedestrian, providing some interesting glimpses at other...
Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road
AuthorStuart Stevens
ISBN0871131900
"Chop Stuart"

Travellers come in many flavors, just like ice cream. Some try to "get in" with the natives of the places they go in order to learn more about foreign ways and perceptions. Others prefer to challenge themselves with tests of strength and endurance, paddling up jungle rivers or...
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
AuthorCathy N. Davidson
ISBN0822339137
In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make...
Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
AuthorLars Eighner
ISBN0449909433
"When I began writing this account I was living under a shower curtain in a stand of bamboo in a public park. I did not undertake to write about homelessness, but wrote what I knew, as an artist paints a still life, not because he is especially fond of fruit, but because the subject is readily at hand." A beautifully...
Reclaiming Travel
AuthorIlan Stavans
ISBN0822358697
Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison seek to understand why we travel and what has come to be missing...
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...
The Best American Travel Writing 2009
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0618858660
**Heh, 3.5 stars if GoodReads had such a thing**

I tethered with the rating on this one because some of the essays were non-memorable and almost boring, not bothering to uncover the travel experience through narrator experience and setting authenticity.

Yet some were indeed memorable....
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
AuthorGustave Flaubert
ISBN0140435824
At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a “sensibility on tour,” Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer’s impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert’s traveling companion, Maxime...
The Size of the World
AuthorJeff Greenwald
By the time that travel writer Jeff Greenwald hit his late thirties, he had covered more ground than Magellan, Marco Polo, and Columbus combined. But he also came to a sobering conclusion: airplanes had reduced his exotic explorations to a series of long commutes. So he set out to rediscover the mass,...
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...
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
AuthorJane Robinson
ISBN0192802011
Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This new collection of women's travel dispels that myth, with amusing and thrilling extracts which prove that there are few corners of the world not visited by lady travelers. Isabella Bird, Karen Blixen, Christina Dodwell, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy,...
The Best American Travel Writing 2007
AuthorSusan Orlean
ISBN0618582177
“Travel is not about finding something. It’s about getting lost -- that is, it is about losing yourself in a place and a moment. The little things that tether you to what’s familiar are gone, and you become a conduit through which the sensation of the place is felt.” -- from the introduction by...
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
AuthorMargaret Visser
ISBN0865476403
Margaret Visser's desire to find answers to her own questions -- as a traveler, a believer, and an insatiable "anthropologist of everyday life" -- led her to undertake this unique and revelatory book. Guiding the reader through a church outside Rome, Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura, she draws upon history,...
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars
AuthorPaul Fussell
ISBN0195030680
The kind of felicity to which the Blue Train conveyed you, as it let you off at Marseilles or Toulon or Cannes or Nice or Monte Carlo, whence you could go on to the Italian Riviera, to Rapallo and all the way down to the Amalfi Coast, seemed novel in the 20’s. It seems novel no longer because those places have...
Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
AuthorRuth Padel
ISBN0802715443
Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India-- and her visit turned into a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and most beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with her grandmother's...
Arabia
AuthorJonathan Raban
ARABIA is the story of Jonathan Raban's magic carpet ride through Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan. Not only does it reveal the Arabs and their culture, it also introduces us to a series of memorable individuals.

Much of the book's strength is the author's gift for friendships....
Words of Mercury
AuthorPatrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN0719561051
Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, a now famous journey described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages wherever he went, and where...
The People's Guide to Mexico
AuthorCarl Franz
ISBN1566917115
Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.

Features include:
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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
AuthorJohn Gimlette
ISBN1400078520
Haven to Nazis, smugglers’ paradise, home to some of the earth’s oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurer’s sang-froid, a historian’s erudition, and a sense of irony...
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
AuthorDon George
ISBN1742205941
This book is a Lonely Planet collection of short stories - all travel related, and all by authors recognised as fiction writers. There are thirty two stories, some of the authors are well known to me, others I have never heard of. The authors are from varied places, but largely - UK, USA, Australia &...
A Book of Travellers' Tales
AuthorEric Newby
ISBN0140107401
I picked up this book in a family-owned book shop in small corner of Huon Valley in Tasmania. I bought it because it's cheap, thick and about travelling which I love. It turned out to be awesome. It includes all small paragraphs and writings from travellers through out the history, across the continents....
A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration
AuthorMichael Shapiro
ISBN1932361081
In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book...
A Woman in the Polar Night
AuthorChristiane Ritter
ISBN1602231001
For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian painter Christiane Ritter was at best ambivalent when her husband asked her to join him on the small Arctic island of Spitsbergen in a tarpaulin-covered hut sixty miles from the nearest neighbor. Yet his...
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