| A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe Contributor(s): Conlon, Faith (Editor), Emerick, Ingrid (Editor), Henry de Tessan, Christina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 158005059X ISBN-13: 9781580050593 Publisher: Seal Press (CA) OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2001 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: In "A Woman Alone, " solo women travelers tell their funny, thrilling, occasionally terrifying, ultimately transformative stories of navigating some of the most unusual destinations on the globe. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Special Interest - Adventure - Social Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 910.408 |
| LCCN: 2001049708 |
| Series: Adventura Books |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.55" W x 7.54" (0.66 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian trading route. Faith Adiele, a black Buddhist nun, enters a deserted train station at 3:00 a.m. in a Thai village controlled by armed bandits. Ena Singh negotiates with Russian police to visit the blue-domed city of Samarkand. In A Woman Alone, these women and others tell their funny, thrilling, occasionally terrifying, ultimately transformative stories of navigating some of the most unusual destinations on the globe. |