The Best Women's Travel Writing 2005 True Stories from Around the World

by Morris, Mary; McCauley, Lucy

• ISBN13: 9781932361186
• ISBN10: 1932361189
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-25
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Summary

Since the publication of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been publishing award-winning books by and for women. We continue this tradition with The Best Women's Travel Writing 2005, the first collection in an annual series guaranteed to inspire women to take their first trip-or to continue exploring the world with wit, soul, and verve, as so many adventurous women do each and every day. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Mary Morris
Introduction	xix
Lucy McCauley
It Takes a Village to Please My Mother	1	(18)
Kathryn Kefauver
Mungo Made Me Do It	19	(26)
Kira Salak
The Making of My Maman	45	(6)
Colette O'Connor
The Devil and Hare Krishna	51	(26)
Laurie Gough
Where Size Matters	77	(7)
Wendy Wright Soref
A River Runs Through Me	84	(10)
Marisa Lopez
State of Grace	94	(8)
Suz Redfearn
Hungry Ghosts	102	(10)
Faith Adiele
Bananas and Eggs	112	(9)
Chellis Ying
Clicking in Greece	121	(8)
Mija Riedel
In the Dust of His Peacock's Feathers	129	(15)
Ruth Kamnitzer
A Tale of Two Churches	144	(8)
Deborah J. Smith
Asia and Bust	152	(15)
Leilani Marie Labong
Fruity Pleasures	167	(4)
Kelly Sobczak
Highland Remedy	171	(7)
Fran Palumbo
The Tao of Simon	178	(8)
Leah Kohlenberg
Where Boys Grow Up To Be Girls	186	(10)
Laura Fraser
The Naked Brew	196	(6)
Andrea Miller
Sister Thomasina	202	(10)
Sara Bathum
Wild Olives	212	(6)
Jennica Peterson
Outback Overview	218	(12)
Kari J. Bodnarchuk
Desert Cure	230	(5)
Victoria Shaw
The Beauty Contest	235	(8)
Lucy McCauley
Open-Road Therapy	243	(12)
Kiersten Aschauer
The Stones Also Are the River	255	(6)
Sharon Balentine
An Utterly Unremarkable Cave	261	(7)
Amanda Coffin
The Little Dog That Could	268	(6)
Mary Noble
Climbing the Coconut Tree	274	(6)
Kathryn Abajian
A Bridge Across Sand	280	(6)
Germaine W. Shames
Letter from Morocco	286	(5)
Melissa Manlove
Acknowledgments	291