Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo
10 best books like Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo (Beth Whitman): Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives, Gutsy Women: Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road, Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World Solo, Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone, There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales of Travel and Misadventure
| Author | Holly Morris |
| ISBN | 0375760636 |
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...
| Author | Christina Henry De Tessan |
| ISBN | 1580050700 |
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...
| Author | Jennifer L. Leo |
| ISBN | 1885211929 |
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...
| Author | Stephanie Elizondo Griest |
| ISBN | 1932361472 |
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...
| Author | Sadie Smith |
| ISBN | 0756653991 |
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,...
| Author | Marybeth Bond |
| ISBN | 1885211155 |
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...
| Author | Faith Conlon |
| ISBN | 1580051995 |
There is nothing quite like hitting the road by yourself to awaken your senses, sharpen your mind, and build your confidence. In twenty-three beautifully crafted essays, women recount the thrills of traveling solo.
Despite threat-assessment levels and airport-security hassles, women...
| Author | Teresa Rodriguez Williamson |
| ISBN | 0399533109 |
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,...
| Author | Doug Lansky |
| ISBN | 1932361278 |
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...
| Author | Don George |
| ISBN | 1741046068 |
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,...
| Author | Erik Torkells |
| ISBN | 1594741778 |
Travel Smart!
The Smart Traveler’s Passport is a collection of 399 of the best travel tips you’ll ever read, compiled from the pages of Budget Travel magazine. You’ll learn:
• 13 different uses for Ziploc bags
• How dental floss can...
The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
| Author | Alain Daniélou |
| ISBN | 0892813547 |
The study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu dieties as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves. Referred to by its adherents as the "eternal religion," Hinduism recognizes for each age and each country a new form of revelation--and for each person, according...
| Author | Michael Freeman |
| ISBN | 9749863259 |
Like many people, I purchased my copy of Ancient Angkor from a local vendor at the Angkor Wat temple in the midst of my visit to Cambodia.
I read the book after the trip, which is not the primary way in which it is intended to be read, but I still found it an enjoyable read that brought back memories...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312078919 |
In The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois produces another volume in the series that Locus calls 'the field's real anthology-of-record.' With a unique combination of foresight and perspective, Dozois continues to collect outstanding work by newcomers and established...
101 Places Not to See Before You Die
| Author | Catherine Price |
| ISBN | 0061787760 |
Irreverent and compulsively readable, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die highlights desitinations we can all live without - like Jupiter's Worst Moon, an Outdoor Wedding During the 2021 Reemergence of the Great Eastern Cicada Brood, and fan hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention - while reminding...
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Egypt" is your indispensable guide to this remarkable part of the world. This fully updated guide includes street maps of cities and towns, plus unique illustrated cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the must-see sights. Vibrant full-color photography will...
A Journey of One's Own: Uncommon Advice for the Independent Woman Traveler
| Author | Thalia Zepatos |
| ISBN | 0933377525 |
Originally published in 1992, with a second edition in 1996, A Journey of One’s Own has sold over68,000 copies. Praised by travel experts across the spectrum, from Glamour to The Women’s Review of Books, from The Whole Earth Catalog to American Express, U.S. News and World Report, and Parade, and...
Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild
| Author | Susan Fox Rogers |
| ISBN | 1580051065 |
While many dream of solo adventure, these talented and adventurous women show how it’s done. Whether hiking in Nepal, caving, sailing through choppy ocean waters, or discovering Alaska on foot, the women in these essays eloquently convey not only the thrills of the solo adventure, but also examine...
| Author | Nick Ray |
| ISBN | 1740595254 |
Angkor Wat is just the beginning. If you want to dig deeper into the real Cambodia, this guide is your key. Unlock the mysteries of the sacred temples, share the Mekong with endangered dolphins, and eat with pythons and cobras by your side. With Lonely Planet, you'll have the adventure you always dreamed...
Gary Vaynerchuk's 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World
| Author | Gary Vaynerchuk |
| ISBN | 1594868824 |
Millions have logged onto Gary Vaynerchuk's Wine Library TV--watching him boldly and unconventionally rate hundreds of wines. Viewers are attracted to his youthful energy, unique voice, and often outrageous descriptions. Now, in Gary Vaynerchuk's 101 Wines, Vaynerchuk reveals his first ranked...
| Author | China Williams |
| ISBN | 1741043077 |
Discover Thailand
Uncover Bangkok's best street stalls or enjoy a skyscraping gourmet dinner.
Climb aboard a long-tail boat and island hop to your own isolated beach paradise.
Get soaked at Songkran, the Thai celebration that becomes the world's biggest water fight.
Trek off the...
Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto
| Author | David Tracey |
| ISBN | 0865715831 |
The term “guerrilla” may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist’s...
