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Title:

A woman's passion for travel : true stories of world wanderlust / edited by Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Distributed by Publishers Group West,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xviii, 298 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Travel--Anecdotes.
Women travelers--Anecdotes.

Other Authors:

Bond, Marybeth.
Michael, Pamela.

Notes:

Originally published: 1999. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

My mother's boots / Susan Spano (Colorado). The Spanish church / Catherine Watson (Spain) -- Special delivery / Lindsy van Gelder (Ecuador & Italy) -- The boatman's gift / Pamela Michael (Laos) -- Mysteries of life / Anne Lamott (Mexico) -- L'air du temps / Marilyn McFarlane (France) -- Light on a moonless night / Laurie Gough (Fiji) -- On Italian tour / Mary Morris (Italy) -- Unpaved roads / Virginia Barton Brownback (Mexico) -- Following the tracks back / Sekai Nzenza-Shand (Zimbabwe) -- Guardians of the dark / Marybeth Bond (Mexico) -- And miles to go / Letty Cottin-Pogrebin (The World) -- Kenya on horseback / Ann Jones (Kenya) -- Sex, yams and the Kula ring / Lynn Ferrin (Papua New Guinea) -- River of life / Leila Philip (Grand Canyon) -- Venice / Frances Mayes (Italy) -- Winter walk / Deborah Johansen (Massachusetts) -- Extended family / Alison Darosa (India) -- The center of nowhere / Barbara Ras (Alaska) -- Ndume / Rosalind Aveling (Rwanda) -- Girl kayak guides of Juneau / Candace Dempsey (Alaska) -- Scorpion hunting / Diane Ridga (Tunisia) -- Bathing suit anxiety / Marilyn Lutzker (Iceland) -- The stowaway / Celia Wakefield (Mexico) -- The lushes / Pier Roberts (Italy) -- Outside the frame / Anees Jung (India) -- On the rocks / Pam Houston (Grand Canyon) -- A Russian handshake / Barbara L. Baer (Russia) -- Italian affair / Laura Fraser (Italy) -- Three's a crowd / Kathleen Dean Moore (Washington) -- Toiletopia / Kathleen Meyer (Japan) -- The moment of truth / Dianne Partie Lange (Thailand) -- An English girl in Suez / Ann Mackintosh (Egypt) -- Chinese like me / Jennifer L. Leo (Hong Kong) -- Jump / Aleta Brown (Spain) -- My Lai, thirty years after / Rachel Louise Snyder (Vietnam) -- Why I have never seen the Mona Lisa smile / Claire Tristram (France) -- Souvenirs from Belize / Pamela Conley (Belize) -- Where is the girl who speaks English? / Joan Zimmerman (Tibet & Nepal) -- Out there / Jo Ann Beard (Alabama) -- Fever / Jennifer Duffy (India) -- My mother's boots / Susan Spano (Colorado).

Series:

Travelers' Tales

ISBN:

9781932361148 (pbk.)
1932361146 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56319798

LCCN:

2004018772

Locations:

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)