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The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 13: True Stories from Around the World
Includes New York Times bestselling authors Roxane Gay, Ann Hood, Marcia DeSanctis, and Susan Orlean The newest...
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Includes New York Times bestselling authors Roxane Gay, Ann Hood, Marcia DeSanctis, and Susan Orlean The newest collection in this award-winning series from Travelers' Tales invites you to join twenty-seven inspiring and thoughtful writers as they traverse the planet, crisscrossing all seven continents and exploring the ways travel can illuminate, heal, inform, and transform a life. The essays probe themes as diverse as the locations, immersing us in experiences of kindness, adventure, nature, friendship, strength, marriage, motherhood, spirituality, the environment, belonging, healing, history, identity, romance, and resilience. This beautiful and far-ranging collection helps us celebrate an appreciation for other cultures while proving that travel can be a profound gateway to connection, self-awareness, and an expanded worldview. As Lavinia Spalding writes in her introduction, "In times of turmoil and despair, it becomes more vital to pay attention to how much there is live for, and travel for, and stand up for, and the stories in this volume shine light on this." In The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 13, you will:
Author: Lavinia Spalding
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 06/09/2026
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781609522179
About the Author
Lavinia Spalding has edited six previous volumes of The Best Women's Travel Writing. She is also the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler and With a Measure of Grace, the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant, and she introduced the reissued e-book edition of Edith Wharton's classic travelogue, A Motor-Flight Through France. Her writing appears in numerous print and online publications, including Sunset, Yoga Journal, San Francisco magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and The Best Travel Writing. She lives in New Orleans.
- Embrace contradictions on the late-night tango floors of Argentina
- Splash toward a sexual awakening in the depths of a French swimming pool
- Hike the ups and downs of an active volcano and a marriage in Sicily
- Learn to surf and face cultural stereotypes in Hawaii
- Experience a different relationship with grief during Day of the Dead in Mexico
- Uncover the nuances of hair braiding in Nigeria and Morocco
- Explore the joys and challenges of motherhood in Qatar's singing sand dunes
- ...and much more.
Author: Lavinia Spalding
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 06/09/2026
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781609522179
About the Author
Lavinia Spalding has edited six previous volumes of The Best Women's Travel Writing. She is also the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler and With a Measure of Grace, the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant, and she introduced the reissued e-book edition of Edith Wharton's classic travelogue, A Motor-Flight Through France. Her writing appears in numerous print and online publications, including Sunset, Yoga Journal, San Francisco magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and The Best Travel Writing. She lives in New Orleans.
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