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Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure

10 best books like Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Tim Cahill): I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada, Running the Amazon, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River, A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go

I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers
AuthorRoger Rapoport
ISBN1571430148
In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the stories of their greatest travel disasters....
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada
AuthorWill Ferguson
Canada's number one humorist, routinely compared to our own Bill Bryson, has written a funny, idiosyncratic, and warmly humane book full of sly observations and witty stories culled from his travels among the people and places of our neighbors up north.
Will Ferguson spent the past three years...
Running the Amazon
AuthorJoe Kane
The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where the Amazon runs gently into the Atlantic. Joe Kane'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...
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
AuthorKira Salak
ISBN0792274571
After 37 years of never reading about Mali, I have managed two books about that country in the last month. The previous book (The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) gave more information about the history of the region, and informed my reading...
Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River
AuthorColin Angus
ISBN0767912802
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it.

Exploration is...
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...
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...
No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
AuthorAyun Halliday
ISBN1580050972
Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture, Halliday offers bemused,...
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...
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,...
Gutsy Women: Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road
AuthorMarybeth Bond
ISBN1885211155

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...
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...
Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone
AuthorTeresa Rodriguez Williamson
ISBN0399533109
There's a whole big world out there. Here's how every woman can get out and conquer it-solo.

This is an inspiring guide for women who want to "fly solo"-yet stay safe, sane, and solvent during their travels. With candid advice and insider's secrets about some of the most exciting places on earth,...
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...
By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales of Travel and Misadventure
AuthorDon George
ISBN1741046068
Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, these experiences can give birth to our most profound travel lessons and illuminations,...
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 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...
Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye!
AuthorCynthia Heimel
Forget Faludi--Cynthia Heimel has been telling her readers about the "backlash" for years, and about its pernicious effects not only on the psyches of women but also on the lives of men, children, cats, and dogs. This collection confirms how indispensible she has become as a guide through the maelstrom...
The Best American Travel Writing 2008
AuthorAnthony Bourdain
ISBN0618858644
In his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that “spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fearful, sublime, and absurd; the small epiphanies familiar to the full-time traveler,...
Swahili for the Broken-Hearted
AuthorPeter Moore
ISBN0553814524
Question: What do you do when you're dumped by the Girl Next Door?
Answer: Throw yourself into another madcap adventure and travel from Cape Town to Cairo...
A week after breaking up with the GND (his travelling companion through Central America) Peter Moore heads off to Africa to lose himself...
Novel Destinations: A Travel Guide to Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West
AuthorShannon McKenna Schmidt
ISBN1426217803
Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful trips and unusual locales, cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations a guide for bibliophiles...
Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor
AuthorMichael J. Rosen
ISBN0060953217
Seriously Funny Writing By Today's Most Celebrated AuthorsAt last, a premier showcase of fifty-four great literary humorists and masters of the journalistic jab, the social spoof, the parodic proof, the satire, the tirade, and the send-up. Here are those "last laughs" and "wit's end" pieces everyone...
Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos
AuthorPeter Allison
ISBN1599214695
I got a little mixed up and read Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos before Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide. But I get the sense it didn't matter very much which order you read them in, in much...
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