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10 best books like Solo: On Her Own Adventure (Susan Fox Rogers): Hungry Woman in Paris, Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks, French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France, Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, The Best American Short Stories 1998, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World

Hungry Woman in Paris
AuthorJosefina López
ISBN0446699411
A journalist and activist, Canela believes passion is essential to life; but lately passion seems to be in short supply. It has disappeared from her relationship with her fiancé, who is more interested in controlling her than encouraging her. It's absent from her work, where censorship and politics...
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN0609610732
This book chronicles a walk from one state to another along the boundary of a glacial lake, but the way McKibben describes it, it is so much more. It is a cultural divide, a socioeconomic divide. I was hoping for more nature, but McKibben plainly states "I am not a naturalist". He mentions a few trees, a few...
French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France
AuthorRebecca S. Ramsey
Can a family of five from deep in the heart of Dixie find happiness smack dab in the middle of France?

French By Heart is the story of an all-American family pulling up stakes and finding a new home in Clermont-Ferrand, a city four hours south of Paris known more for its smoke-spitting factories...
Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own
AuthorPolly Evans
ISBN0385339933
Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was simple: travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired adventurer found herself on a primitive sleeper-minibus where sleep was out of the question;...
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
AuthorArlene Blum
ISBN0156031167
A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the first all-female teams on successful ascents of Mount McKinley and Annapurna and by being the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. At the same time, her groundbreaking scientific work challenged...
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
ISBN0618446656
The Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman's personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys: visiting an Anglican shrine to Saint Mary in Walsingham, England; walking the five-hundred-mile...
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...
The Best American Short Stories 1998
AuthorGarrison Keillor
ISBN0395875145
Best American Short Stories of 1998 is a collection of short stories selected by Garrison Keillor.

Stories read in random order, as part of the 2014 Deal Me In! Short Story Reading Challenge (bibliophilica.wordpress.com/deal-me-i...).

Wayne in Love - by Padgett Powell
I hated...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
Miles from Nowhere
AuthorBarbara Savage
ISBN0898861098
A well-loved, classic tale of adventure, a book you'll find yourself recommending again and again

This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years....
The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
AuthorBarbara Sjoholm
ISBN1593761597
A Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.

Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the...
Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul: Stories of Adventure, Inspiration and Insight to Celebrate the Spirit of Travel (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
AuthorJack Canfield
ISBN1558749705
Whether your idea of travel at its finest is trekking through Europe with a backpack, a map and a foreign-language dictionary; road-tripping across America in a fully loaded RV; or cruising the Caribbean aboard a luxury liner, Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul celebrates the people you'll meet,...
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...
The Song of Songs: A New Translation
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0520226755
HARDCOVER GIFT EDITION

The Song of Songs, often referred to as the Song of Solomon, is one of the greatest love poems of all time. In their lyrical new translation, Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch restore the sensuousness of the original language and strip away the veils of mistranslation that have...
New York
AuthorAnnelise Sorensen
Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK "Eyewitness Travel Guides," each book in DK's "Top 10" series uses evocative color photography, excellent cartography, and up-to-date travel content to create a reliable and useful pocket-sized travel guide.
Dozens of Top 10 lists...
Etiquette Guide to Japan: Know the Rules That Make the Difference!
AuthorBoyé Lafayette de Mente
ISBN0804834172
I am so glad I read this little book before I visited Japan, I can’t tell you. It’s actually more for people there on business, but for me, travelling for pleasure, it gave me a brilliant insight into the Japanese culture and saved me the world of embarrassment too.
I learned how to know when to...
Confessions of a Barbarian
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN1555662870
Edward Abbey was an anarchist, activist, philosopher, and the spiritual father of the environmental movement. He was also a passionate journal keeper, a man who filled page after page with notes, philosophical musings, character sketches, illustrations, musical notations, and drawings. His...
Beyond Backpacking: Ray Jardine's Guide to Lightweight Hiking
AuthorRay Jardine
ISBN0963235931
Jardine is a genuine adventurer. His 25,000 miles of trail experience just scratches the surface of his sweeping array of accomplishments.

This man has put in the hours on the trail & diligently refined his system of lightweight backpacking, which he refers to as "the Ray Way."

Jardine...
Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes: A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness
AuthorRobert Kull
ISBN1577316746
Years after losing his lower right leg in a motorcycle crash, Robert Kull traveled to a remote island in Patagonia’s coastal wilderness with equipment and supplies to live alone for a year. He sought to explore the effects of deep solitude on the body and mind and to find the spiritual answers he’d...
Going Postal: The Ups and Downs of Travelling the World on a Postie Bike
AuthorNathan Millward
ISBN0730494934
When I saw this book in the store and read the blurb I knew immediately that I had to read it. A guy travelling from Sydney to London on a decomissioned postie bike with only a couple of days of prep time? It sounded too crazy to not be good, and I was right.

Nathan Millward recounts his experiences...
The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, and Pulling It All Together in Your 30s
AuthorAndrea N. Richesin
ISBN1585424676
If recent bestsellers such as The Bitch in the House and Midlife Crisis at Thirty serve as any indication of how women are experiencing their thirties, who can blame women embarking upon this decade in their life for panicking? Yet, as the contributors to this thoughtful and inspiring book attest, it...
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