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With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go encourages women of any age to see the world — in a group, with a friend, or solo — and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations of many countries, states, and regions, and on interviews with travelers, award-winning author Stephanie Elizondo Griest highlights 100 special destinations and challenging activities — from diving for pearls in Bahrain to racing a camel, yak, or pony across Mongolia; to dancing with voodoo priestesses in Benin and urban cowboys in Texas; to taking a mud bath in a volcano off the coast of Colombia. Divided into such sections as “Places Where Women Made History,” “Places of Indulgence,” and “Places of Adventure,” this guidebook includes timely contact information, resources, and recommended reading.
About the Author
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globe-trotting author from South Texas. Her books include the memoirs Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (Villard/Random House, 2004) ; Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines (Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster, 2008) ; All the Agents & Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands (UNC Press, 2017) ; and the best-selling guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Travelers' Tales, 2007) . She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Believer, Oxford American, and VQR, and she edited the anthology Best Women's Travel Writing 2010. As a national correspondent for The Odyssey, she once drove 45,000 miles across the United States in a Honda Hatchback named Bertha. Awards include a Henry Luce Scholarship to China, a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University, and the Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting. A renowned public speaker, she is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Visit her website at StephanieElizondoGriest.com.
