The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales)

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Since publishing A Womanx2019;s World in 1995, Travelersx2019; Tales has been the recognized leader in womenx2019;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 womenx2019;s travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual seriesx97;The Best Womenx2019;s Travel Writingx97;that presents 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 are a womanx2019;s perspective and compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasnx2019;t.In The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011, readersHave lunch with a mobster in Japan and drinks with an IRA member in IrelandLearn the secrets of flamenco in Spain and the magic of samba in BrazilDeliver a trophy for best testicles in a small town in rural SerbiaFall in love while riding a camel through the Syrian DesertSki a first descent of over 5,000 feet in Northern IndiaDiscover the joy of getting naked in South KoreaLeave it all behind to slop pigs on a farm in Ecuador...and much more.

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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. She has kept travel journals throughout thirty countries on five continents. Although her inextinguishable wanderlust prevents her from ever really staying put, she currently lives in San Francisco.