About this item
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 eleventh 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.
About the Author
Lavinia Spalding is author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler and co-author of With a Measure of Grace, the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant and This Immeasurable Place, Food and Farming from the Edge of Wilderness. She is series editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing, and she introduced the reissued e-book edition of Edith Wharton's classic travel memoir, A Motor-Flight Through France. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Tin House, Post Road, AFAR, Yoga Journal, AirBnB Magazine, Sunset Magazine, San Francisco magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian UK, Off Assignment, Inkwell Journal, Ms., Westways, and Every Day with Rachael Ray, and her essays have been anthologized in Lonely Planet's An Innocent Abroad, Independent Bookstore's Days Like This, and two volumes of The Best Travel Writing. She is a member of the Writers' Grotto and Peauxdunque Writers Alliance and co-founder of Weekday Wanderlust, an award-winning monthly travel reading series. She lives in New Orleans and Cape Cod, and teaches writing workshops around the world, from Machu Picchu to Mexico and Morocco, Nepal to New Orleans. Watch her popular TedX talk here:https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=_CNulcWfi-0
