Product Description: Combines archive material from a book of the same name first published in 1889 with anecdotes from well-known modern female travelers to offer a fascinating insight into the way that travel has changed for women over the last century From reminders to take your own bath with you to tips on how to hail a cab, today's intrepid female explorer has much to learn from her 19th century forebears...read more

Offers a series of travel ideas for women that range from big city trips or small-town weekends to pampering spa retreats and wilderness adventures, in a volume that includes practical suggestions on roommate etiquette, safety, what to pack, and budgeting.

Presents a collection of travel tales by women traveling alone.

Collects global voyage testimonies by women adventurers who engaged in a range of specific activities including silver smithing in Niger, flamenco dance lessons in Spain, and an audience with the queen in Nepal. Original.

A collection of women's travel narratives features essays on such topics as following in the steps of a tenth-century Viking woman, spending a summer in Provence working in a hotel laundry, and a trip to Labrador on an icebreaker.

Twenty-eight bitingly funny responses to the question: "What happens when trips go wrong?" Women travel for myriad reasons. They venture out to escape the routine of daily existence; to encounter fascinating new people and places and facets of themselves; to enrich their lives, explore, wander. But sometimes none of this works out. The Unsavvy Traveler collects the hilarious and cathartic misadventure tales of over twenty-five women: Alice Evans, a journalist and environmentalist, battles a bear deep in the Tennessee woods, armed only with a bag of peanut M&Ms. Amateur shutterbug Nancy Cooper Frank is attacked by a furious nude model in Germany. Poet Ingrid Wendt unwittingly spews obscenities for a gathering of the Italian literati. Laid low by a foot injury, Alle Hall crawls on hands and knees around the temples of Angkor Wat, garnering curious stares from locals and tourists alike. In her first months as a teacher in picturesque Matsumoto, Japan, Marilyn Abildskov wrangles with curious forms of bathroom etiquette. These writers are the comedic casualties of the tourism industry--the breezy, insouciant trekkers who discover the necessity of preparation far too late, the nervous new expatriates navigating the confusing twists of a new cultural environment or the irreproachable, unflappable travelers suddenly beset by the devilish whims of destiny. With wry humor and unabashed honesty, these stories convey the merriest spirit of the intrepid adventurer. Other contributors include Caryn Bark, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Ayun Halliday and Novella Carpenter.

Funny, insightful stories by women travelers include contributions by Jill Connor Browne, Ayun Halliday, Sarah MacDonald, Laurie Notaro, and Wanda Sykes writing about various misadventures and experiences all over the world. Original.

Women tell their stories of trouble on the road in this collection of travel stories about misadventures that takes readers topless bathing, honeymooning in Maui, and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, among other scenarios fraught with disaster. Original.

Women share stories of international travel in this fascinating celebration of the globetrotting spirit, with contributions from Frances Mayes, Anne Lamott, Pam Houston, Jo Ann Beard, Candace Dempsey, Ann Jones, and others. Original.

Humorous and insightful, this collection of travel writing by very funny women includes hilarious stories from around the world, with tales of fighting ticks in Ozark Mountains, ducking the Turkish mafia, and searching for straight men in the gay section of London. Original.

A collection of inspirational accounts by women travelers demonstrates how women are more open to personal contacts with other cultures and encounter the world from a different perspective and includes contributions from Gretel Ehrlich, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Helen Thayer, Mary Morris, and other notable authors. Reprint.

A collection of humorous tales of travel adventures and misadventures by twenty-five contributors--including Anne Lamott, Ellen Degeneres, Sandra Tsing Loh, Sarah Vowell, and Cynthia Kaplan--ranges from being chased by a herd of African elephants to getting bitten by a goddess-possessd healer in Kathmandu. Original.

An inspiring collection of writing by female expatriates follows dozens of women on globe-trotting adventures that will take them as far afield as Borneo, China, and the Ukraine. Original. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Book by Goldstein, Barbara (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)