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Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone

10 best books like Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone (Mary Morris): Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan, One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World, Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella

Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
AuthorJamie Zeppa
At age 24 Jamie Zeppa, a Canadian who had never been outside of North America, said goodbye to her fiancé and her plans for graduate school and moved to Bhutan, a remote Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas.

Beyond the Sky and the Earth is an autobiographical work that details her experiences and...
One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
AuthorDavid Elliot Cohen
ISBN1885211651
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to make it a reality. With his wife and three children,...
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....
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
AuthorEve Brown-Waite
ISBN0767929357
In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him —literally–to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without...
360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World
AuthorJohn Higham
ISBN1593501080
Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen”—a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four.

After more than a decade of planning,...
Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India
AuthorMiranda Kennedy
ISBN1400067863
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s...
Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
AuthorEric Hansen
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit.

As...
To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism
AuthorChuck Thompson
ISBN0805087885
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and—most terrifying of all—at Disney World

In the widely-acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now he's out to discover if some of...
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
AuthorPico Iyer
ISBN0679746129
I can'ttttt anymore, I'm gonna die of boredom. I was so looking forward to reading this book, but it is SO BLAH! I was expecting more of a travelogue style of writing, not a completely stand-offish overview. The author didn't really get into experiencing these cultures, it seemed. He gave a sentence here...
Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella
AuthorDavid Shalleck
ISBN0767920481
“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...
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...
Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
AuthorAlice Steinbach
ISBN0812973607
This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbach’s greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations, this Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun quit her job and left home again....
All Over the Map
AuthorLaura Fraser
ISBN0307450635
What's a wise, witty travel writer to do when she reaches forty and is still single? Wander the globe searching for romance and adventure, of course.

On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique trajectory of her life. Divorced and childless...
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...
On Mexican Time: A New Life In San Miguel
AuthorTony Cohan
ISBN0747553653
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...
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,...
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,...
The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure
AuthorAnn Vanderhoof
ISBN0385663366
A follow-up to the national bestseller An Embarrassment of Mangoes, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband navigate the Caribbean on a sailboat, discovering local culture in each tiny port, and collecting sumptuous original recipes along the way.

Spices and herbs are the heart and soul of Caribbean...
Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
AuthorTony Horwitz
ISBN0452267455
"A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."-- The New York Times Book Review

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia...
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...
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