Anyone whose passport has been stamped a few times knows the surest method of keeping the travel fire alive: by reading and telling stories from the road, passing them along like a torch in a relay race.
From Travelers’ Tales comes The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World—the ninth collection in the annual best-selling, award-winning series that invites readers to ride shotgun alongside intrepid female nomads as they travel the globe to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The stories in this edition are as diverse as the destinations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling that will make you laugh, weep, wish you were there, or be glad you weren’t.
In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World, readers will:
Tangle with snakes and alligators in Bangladesh
Chase tornadoes with Chinese celebrities
Dodge fireballs while half-naked in Ecuador
Get stuck in the mud by the Ganges in India
Hunt frogs in a Louisiana bayou
Get cheerfully deported from South Africa
Be transformed by a Mexican revolution
Survive close encounters with rhinos in Namibia
Experience life under niqab in Egypt
Find love in a tree house in Laos
... and much, much more.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction by Lavinia Spalding
1. Barren in the Andes – Laura Resau - Ecuador
2. Blot Out - Colleen Kinder – Egypt [first appeared in Creative Nonfiction]
3. The Saffron Rabbit – Amber Kelly-Anderson - Spain
4. Mucking About – Meera Subramanian- India - [first appeared on Gadling.com]
5. Frogging Quintana – Natalie Baszile – Louisiana
6. Remember this Night – Katherine Jamieson – Guyana
7. Dreams from my Father – Apricot Anderson Irving - Haiti - [first appeared in MORE]
8. Half-Baked Decisions – Sarah Katin - Thailand/Vietnam/Laos
9. Connie Britton’s Hair - Marcia DeSanctis – Rwanda
10. Trust – Amanda Jones - South Africa
11. Business or Pleasure – Rachel Levin – Canada
12. The Revolution – Sara Menkedick – Mexico [first appeared in Vela Magazine (online)]
13. The Codeine of Jordan – J.S. Brown - Jordan - [first appeared in Bellevue Literary Review]
14. The Black Bitch – Jill Paris - Scotland - [first appeared on Gadling.com]
15. The Women’s Sitting Room – Angie Chuang – Afghanistan
16. Eight Million Miles – Jocelyn Edelstein-Brazil
17. The Best Show in Town - Lauren Quinn – Cambodia - [first appeared in Vela]
18. Yanet’s Vintage Emporium – Julia Cooke - Cuba - [first appeared in the Paris Review]
19. Fill in the Blanks - Abbie Kozolchyk - Suriname/Paraguay/Guyana/French Guiana
20. In the KISS Navy – Elmo Keep – The Ocean/Bahamas - [first appeared in Men's Style Magazine]
21. To Russia with Love - Deborah Copaken Kogan- Russia - [first appeared in MORE magazine]
22. The Road to Wounded Knee – Jenna Scatena - South Dakota
23. We Wait for the Sun – Carol Beddo - Ethiopia
24. Are you Ready to Walk? – Erin Van Rheenan - Scotland - [first appeared in the L.A. Times]
25. Discovery – Rachel Friedman - Australia - [first appeared in Creative Nonfiction]
26. The Rice Man Cometh – Laura Fraser- Italy - [first appeared in Real Eats]
27. City of Light-Kimberley Lovato - France - [first appeared on Gadling.com]
28. Who Made this Grave - Molly Beer - Mexico - [first appeared in Vela]
