Best Women's Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World: v. 9

Author(s): Lavinia Spalding

Travel Writing

Women have been writing about the world for generations but until 2005 never had a book been published that celebrated the best women's travel writing. This is the ninth volume in the series that was long-awaited by readers of women's travel literature. Since 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 ninth 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.


Product Information

Lavinia Spalding is the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler, and coauthor of With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. Her work has also appeared in such publications as Sunset Magazine, Yoga Journal, Inkwell, and Post Road Magazine. She grew up in New Hampshire and Flagstaff, Arizona and graduated from the University of Arizona creative writing programme. She has kept travel journals throughout thirty countries on five continents, and is the editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011 and The Best Women's Travel Writing 2012.

General Fields

  • : 9781609520847
  • : Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
  • : Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
  • : May 2013
  • : United States
  • : June 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lavinia Spalding
  • : Paperback
  • : 613
  • : 910.4082
  • : 350