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As Andrew McCarthy wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “For more than 20 years, Travelers’ Tales has been publishing books that might best be described as the literary equivalent of a group of travelers sitting around a dim cafe, sipping pints or prosecco and trading their best stories.”

Now, new from Travelers’ Tales comes The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World—the latest collection in the best-selling, award-winning series that invites you to ride shotgun alongside intrepid female nomads as they wander the globe discovering new places, faces, and facets of themselves.

“In story after story,” McCarthy wrote about the previous volume of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, “the refreshing absence of bluster and bravado, coupled with the optimism necessary for bold travel, create a unifying narrative that testifies to the personal value and cultural import of leaving the perceived safety of home and setting out into the wider world.”

The essays in this volume are as diverse as the destinations, exploring themes of kindness, transformation, nature, friendship, family, strength, and resilience.

In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 12, you will… Settle a thirteen-year debt in Cuba Learn to survive in the polar regions of Canada Witness an amateur autopsy in Ireland Get chloroformed, robbed, read to, and propositioned in Italy Summit Kilimanjaro in Tanzania Get lost and found on a dark and rainy morning in northern France Find joy in Azerbaijan while walking across two continents Explain American reality TV to a bewildered bunch in Bolivia Fear for your life on a stormy Adriatic Sea Bear witness at the site of a volcano disaster in Indonesia Contemplate the perils of too much safety in Nepal Get conned and taken for a ride in Colombia Track one of the world’s most elusive animals in India Travel the world on stolen plane tickets Outgrow nihilism and embrace friendship at a convent in Spain …and much more!

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B086HDHRGK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Travelers' Tales (October 6, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5424 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 329 pages
Reviewer: McFly
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Get Your Groove Back...!
Review: I devoured these adventures in two sittings. Much more than a series of rote laundry lists of where-to-go and what-to-do at various destinations, each one of these gems of discovery is a short story. The prose is fantastic. The insight moving. Travel author and returning editor of this series, Lavinia Spalding, slayed her choices here and several of the authors have books to their credit. I look forward to accompanying them on more of their odysseys. If you wanderlust as I do, you are crazy not to indulge in these essays. If you don't travel, you will. Get ready to be transported. Get ready to be inspired to discover new destinations and get your groove back.

Reviewer: Liz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Inspirational, as always
Review: I love this series of travel essays by intrepid women. Every volume inspires me to keep traveling and keep writing.

Reviewer: Carol
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Amazing and inspiring
Review: These stories are varied, often exciting, always inspiring in the way they add depth to the human connections associated with the best travel. The prose is beautiful. I will surely explore other volumes of women’s travel writing!

Reviewer: Eric C
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Authentic and Engaging
Review: These short glimpses into the lives and travels of a diverse set of women has given me many great nights of reading. I almost exclusively read fictional novels, but my husband bought me this on a whim, since I love to travel. I'm so glad he did.

Reviewer: Ron P.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great variety
Review: I love the variety and so far the quality of writing. It's a great book for my poolside read.

Reviewer: Ktrain
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Needs bigger/color illustrations!
Review: Good book. Not sure why the illustrations were so small and drab. Colorful writing deserves equally colorful illustrations.

Reviewer: Whitney
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Engaging stories from all over the world
Review: This was an excellent anthology of travel essays (and I say that as someone who loves travel essays and reads a lot of them!). Editor Lavinia Spalding's introduction sets the right tone for the book; she discusses the purpose of travel while acknowledging its duality, and the story she shares about getting lost in Fez leads to an analogy for the way that the book's essays will guide the reader across an extraordinary (but often confusing) world. The essays were thought-provoking and funny, and the prose was always engaging and often beautiful. I'll be thinking about my favorite essays in this collection for a long time.If you're looking for a book that will help you get excited about traveling again, good news — you've found it!

Reviewer: Techless
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: how to get away when we can't
Review: Great read for these shelter in place times. far ranging travels to so many places written by excellent writers. not for women only, but nice to have the point of view for any avid traveler, or just those armchair travelers who are longing for a break from our current crises.