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The Risks of Sunbathing Topless: And Other Funny Stories from the Road

10 best books like The Risks of Sunbathing Topless: And Other Funny Stories from the Road (Kate Chynoweth): I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, Gutsy Women: Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road, It's Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels, Whose Panties Are These?: More Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road, More Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write from the Road, Again!, There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger, Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands (Lonely Planet)

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....
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...
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...
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...
It's Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels
AuthorPolly Evans
ISBN0385339925
Single, stressed, and living amid the hustle and hurry of modern Hong Kong, Polly Evans had a vision: of mountains and orange groves, matadors and promenades–and of a glorious, hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle. But like any decent dream, Polly’s came with its own reality: of thighs...
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...
More Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write from the Road, Again!
AuthorJulia Weiler
ISBN1932361502
Following on the heels of the best-selling Sand in My Bra, this sequel is a collection of hilarious women's travel stories. From Australia to Zambia and everywhere in between, these true stories are full of bust-a-gut laughter. Nothing helps a travel story more than something going wrong — the frustration,...
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...
Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger
AuthorWendy Dale
ISBN0609809830
From salsa dancing in a rum-induced haze and struggling to exercise in Colombia (the guerillas were using the track again today), to crossing international borders unconventionally and dodging bombs in Lebanon (the good news was that they were small bombs), Wendy somehow manages to find herself...
Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands (Lonely Planet)
AuthorTony Wheeler
ISBN1741791863
'You guys really are the axis of evil', our guide splutters over his stein of beer in the Pyongyang duck restaurant. 'You're always leaning out of the windows and taking photographs when I tell you not to.'

In an age of plastic knives on planes, Tony Wheeler can make the extraordinary claim of...
Goodnight Bush
AuthorErich Origen
A brilliant parody of the children's classic Goodnight Moon, built around the coming end of the worst presidency ever.

Goodnight Bush: An Unauthorized Parody is a hilarious and poignant visual requiem for the Bush administration. In it we see a childlike George W. Bush tucked safely away...
Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power
AuthorShira Tarrant
ISBN0415956560
Men Speak Out is a collection of essays written by and about pro-feminist men. In the essays, which feature original, lively and accessible prose, anti-sexist men make sense of their gendered experiences in today's culture.

The authors tackle the issues of feminism, growing up male, recognizing...
Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
AuthorBill Geist
ISBN0767922727
Celebrated roving correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and bestselling author Bill Geist serves up a rollicking look at some small-town Americans and their offbeat ways of life.

“In rural Kansas, I asked our motel desk clerk for the name of the best restaurant in the area. After mulling...
Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
AuthorTahir Shah
ISBN1559706775
A shrunken head from Peru and a feather with traces of blood are the clues that launch Tahir Shah on his latest journey. Fascinated by the recurring theme of flight in Peruvian folklore, Shah sets out to discover whether the Incas really were able to "fly like birds" over the jungle, as a Spanish monk reported....
Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
AuthorDiane Mapes
ISBN1580052029
Are single women happy individualists? Neurotic man-hunters? Crazed cat ladies? Are they confused, or content? Bitter, or better off?

No one seems to know. The popular media gives us shoe shopaholics, ditzy desperados, wannabe brides forever making cow eyes at The Bachelor. But what do...
Adventures of a Continental Drifter
AuthorElliott Hester
ISBN0312312423
One year. Six continents. Twenty-two countries. Endless stories to tell.

In October 2002, Elliott Hester sold his car, abandoned his apartment, and took off alone on a trip around the world, during which he drifted to more than fifty destinations. Elliott's tales about his travels range...
Take Me With You
AuthorBrad Newsham
ISBN0553814486
'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.'

Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this in his journal. Fourteen years later, he's a Yellow Taxi driver working in San Francisco. He's not rich, but...
The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
AuthorLawrence Osborne
ISBN0865477094
From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east--and of the tour itself Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He...
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
AuthorKatrina Karkazis
ISBN0822343185
What happens when a baby is born with “ambiguous” genitalia or a combination of “male” and “female” body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with complicated questions such as whether a girl can have XY chromosomes, or whether some penises are “too small”...
Southern Fried Divorce
AuthorJudy Conner
The hilarious account of one woman’s marriage and divorce—Big Easy- style

Set against the colorful backdrop of New Orleans, SOUTHERN FRIED DIVORCE raucously recounts the author’s divorce from "That X"—a classic bad boy—and the unpredictable roles he plays in her life afterward....
F 'em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls
AuthorJennifer Baumgardner
ISBN1580053602
From Jennifer Baumgardner, one of the leading voices of Third Wave feminism, comes this provocative, thoughtful, often funny collection of essays and interviews that offers a state of the union on contemporary feminist issues.

F 'em! is a mix of old and new essays by Baumgardner, ranging...
Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate
AuthorChristine Overall
ISBN0262016982
In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful...
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