Go Girl!
Author: Elaine Lee
Publisher: The Eighth Mountain Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780933377424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first travel book for the sisters!
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Safety and Security for Women who Travel
Author: Sheila Swan
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781885211293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGives women travelers advice on selecting a travel companion, dressing for safety, avoiding sexual predators and scam artists, and having fun despite travel mixups.
The Solo Female Travel Book
Author: Jen Ruiz
Publisher:
Published: 2019-03-22
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781732282933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraveling alone doesn't have to be scary! With the proper tools, community and precautions, anyone can expertly navigate the globe on their own. Jen Ruiz is a lawyer turned travel blogger and bestselling author who has traveled the world extensively by herself. "The Solo Female Travel Book" is the latest installment in her how-to travel series and includes funny stories, tips and inspiration to help you see the world safely and confidently. From surviving her first overnight hike in the Grand Canyon to dating mishaps while "living abroad" in Sydney Australia, Jen shares some of her most comedic and relatable travel memories in this book. It's half guide, half memoir, all heart and a must-read for aspiring female adventurers. With this book, you will learn how to: - Prepare for your first solo trip - Choose the right destination - Plan the perfect itinerary - Take stunning photographs by yourself - Pack light and bring all the essentials - Make friends abroad and combat loneliness And much more! Don't let fear hold you back. You don't need to have a travel partner to have amazing adventures. There is power in flying solo, and it's time for you to start discovering it.
Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
Author: Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2022-08-02
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 0253062055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural context for the 17th- to 20th-century writings of Muslim women travelers in ten different languages. Queens and captives, pilgrims and provocateurs, these women are diverse. Their connection to Islam is wide-ranging as well, from the devout to those who distanced themselves from religion. What unites these adventurers is a concern for other women they encounter, their willingness to record their experiences, and the constant thoughts they cast homeward even as they traveled a world that was not always prepared to welcome them. Perfect for readers interested in gender, Islam, travel writing, and global history, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women provides invaluable insight into how these daring women experienced the world—in their own voices.
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11
Author: Lavinia Spalding
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2017-04-16
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1609521129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized national leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the tenth in that series—The Best Women’s Travel Writing—presenting stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads connecting these stories are a female perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes are as eclectic as in all of our books, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.
Travel and Travail
Author: Mary C. Fuller
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1496210298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber. Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on female travel and as a reflection of historical women's travel, whether intentional or not. Travel and Travail conclusively refutes the notion of female travel in the early modern era as "an absent presence." The first part of the volume offers analyses of female travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.
Women, Travel Writing, and Truth
Author: Clare Broome Saunders
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1317690257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise. Women, Travel, and Truth is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in date from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the eighteenth century to Jamaica Kincaid in the twenty-first, across such regions as India, Italy, Norway, Siberia, Austria, the Orient, the Caribbean, China and Mexico. Topics explored include blurred distinctions of fiction and non-fiction; travel writing and politics; subjectivity; displacement, and exile. Students and academics with interests in literary studies, history, geography, history of art, and modern languages will find this book an important reference.
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011
Author: Lavinia Spalding
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2011-03-13
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1609520130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince publishing A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series—The Best Women’s Travel Writing—that presents inspiring and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads are a woman’s perspective and compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. In The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011, readers Have lunch with a mobster in Japan and drinks with an IRA member in Ireland Learn the secrets of flamenco in Spain and the magic of samba in Brazil Deliver a trophy for best testicles in a small town in rural Serbia Fall in love while riding a camel through the Syrian Desert Ski a first descent of over 5,000 feet in Northern India Discover the joy of getting naked in South Korea Leave it all behind to slop pigs on a farm in Ecuador...and much more.
Travels with Myself and Another
Author: Martha Gellhorn
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2001-05-07
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781585420902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic. "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together. Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.
Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Katrina O'Loughlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1108676758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O'Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia, and Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O'Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world.
