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| A Woman's World: True Life Stories of World Travel | 
| Creator: Marybeth Bond
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 232185
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2 Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 1885211953
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4082
EAN: 9781885211958
ASIN: 1885211953
Publication Date: March 2003
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This book brings together more than fifty contemporary voices: women like Pam Houston, Gretel Ehrlich, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, and Robyn Davidson tell their wide-ranging tales and share their humor and courage.
Product Description
This illustrated collection of inspirational travel and adventure tales includes stories by Gretel Ehrlich, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Helen Thayer, Mary Morris, and more. Readers ride across the steppes of Mongolia on horseback with Lynn Ferrin; experience a spiritual awakening with Jean Shinoda Bolen at Chartres Cathedral; raft a wild jungle river in Borneo with a menopausal Tracy Johnston; and join Pam Houston as she weathers a blizzard while camping in the Utah mountains. Spanning the generations with travel stories about the rewards of risk taking and making dreams a reality, A Woman's World is the winner of the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal for Best Travel Book.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
A wonderful book for shorts reads of great adventureres. April 3, 2008
I have read 4 or 5 collections of travel adventures and this is by far the cream of the crop. I would gift this to any man or woman who loves to explore. A real treasure.
Wow - prepare to be inspired February 3, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is amazing. With a full-time job and a toddler, I need a book I can pick up and read a little at a time. I found myself thinking about this book all day and pouring through it each night. I love to travel, but haven't been able too as much as I'd like in recent years. This book not only makes me feel as though I've been on an adventure - several! - but it has inspired me to make mental notes of where I will be off to on my next trip. The great thing about the stories is the feeling that with a little motivation, any reader could be the next to take a trip and write a story. A great pick-me-up, there's-so-much-out-there-to-experience, carpe-diem, kick-in-the-patooty book! I highly recommend it.
 Hokey and cliched. June 4, 2001
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this book to accompany me on a long trip, and wished I hadn't. The stories are very similar to each other, with platitudes of the 'my eyes met with the old woman in the rice paddy, and something wordless was exchanged' variety. I know there are better examples out there: why couldn't the editor find them?
Step out of your comfort zone May 12, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Ride a horse through China. Trek in Nepal. Ride on the back of a motorcycle from California to Northeast Canada. These women are adventurous... yet are normal women with real fears. After reading this book you'll have the courage to be more independent and challenge-seeking. The stories range from the thrill-seekers (think African safari) to conservative travellers (such as going to Gatlinburg for a weekend with the girls)...but illustrates that stepping out of your comfort zone means different things to different women. It's the effort that counts.
The Best of the Best July 26, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
In a hurry, I pulled this gem off the shelf and took it to work for lunch time adventures. Inside of a page I realized I'd read it a couple of years ago, but I never turned back. Bond collected no near misses; every story in this volume is outstanding. Its full of longing, rough and tumble, sensitive bonding, self-realization, hilarious mix-ups, reality checkpoints, stark terror and pain, transcendance, and pride of achievement--all crammed into a heavy volume you don't want to end. Read it. Read it again.
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