The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 13

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Includes stories by Roxane Gay, Susan Orlean, Ann Hood, Faith Adiele, Marcia DeSanctis, and Pier Nirandara

The newest collection in this award-winning series from Travelers' Tales invites you to join twenty-seven inspiring and thoughtful writers as they traverse the planet, crisscrossing all seven continents and exploring the ways travel can illuminate, heal, inform, and transform a life. The essays probe themes as diverse as the locations, immersing us in experiences of kindness, adventure, nature, friendship, strength, marriage, motherhood, spirituality, the environment, belonging, healing, history, identity, romance, and resilience.

This beautiful and far-ranging collection helps us celebrate an appreciation for other cultures while proving that travel can be a profound gateway to connection, self-awareness, and an expanded worldview. As Lavinia Spalding writes in her introduction, “In times of turmoil and despair, it becomes more vital to pay attention to how much there is live for, and travel for, and stand up for, and the stories in this volume shine light on this.”

In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 13, you will:

• Embrace contradictions on the late-night tango floors of Argentina
• Splash toward a sexual awakening in the depths of a French swimming pool
• Hike the ups and downs of an active volcano and a marriage in Sicily
• Learn to surf and face cultural stereotypes in Hawaii
• Experience a different relationship with grief during Day of the Dead in Mexico
• Uncover the nuances of hair braiding in Nigeria and Morocco
• Explore the joys and challenges of motherhood in Qatar’s singing sand dunes
• ...and much more.

Strange Tales of World Travel, Volume 2

"What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen or experienced?”

Gina and Scott Gaille have traveled to more than 100 countries, including many off-the-beaten-path places in Africa, South America, and Asia. Wherever they go, they ask this question. Everyone has a story, and some are truly extraordinary.

Strange Tales of World Travel, Volume 2 is the follow-up to the Gailles’ award-winning first volume. Their sequel entertains readers with 50 more thrilling, hilarious, heartbreaking encounters, including:

• Mr. Centenarian, the 111-year-old who attributes his longevity to drinking and bathing in a magical river
• Mr. Serengeti, who picked the wrong bush to relieve himself in while on safari
• The Refugee, who witnessed his friend get shot for begging a soldier to protect his family from approaching rebels
• Mr. Lucky to Live, who was scalped by an angry baboon

...and many more.

100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go – 5th Edition

“Makes me want to pack my bag and follow Van Allen’s alluring suggestions...she reveals an intimacy with Italy and a honed sense of adventure. Andiamo!” —Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

This fully updated 5th Edition of 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go is packed with new information.

Fifteen years ago, the first edition of this book introduced readers to Susan Van Allen, a fun-loving, savvy traveler who helped them create the Italian trip of their dreams. In this fifth edition she returns to lead a femme-friendly ride up and down the boot, exploring the land where Venus (Vixen Goddess of Love and Beauty) and The Madonna (Nurturing Mother of Compassion) reign side-by-side. Enjoy masterpieces of art that glorify womanly curves, join a cooking class taught by revered grandmas, shop for ceramics and jewelry, ski the Dolomites, hike the Path of the Gods or paint a Venetian mask. Whatever your mood or budget, with this fifth edition of 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, Italy opens her heart to you.