Travelers Tales: 66 books
One Hand Does Not Catch a Buffalo: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories
Volume One: Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Africa is a complicated place, and the Peace Corps Volunteers who have worked in 43 African nations have seen it all: from public executions to public celebrations to life in a time of AIDS. This heartfelt collection is the first of its kind to chronicle 50 years of Peace Corps service. Stories range...
The Thong Also Rises
Further Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Too many travel guides are dry lists of attractions or portentous histories of a place. This isn't the case with The Thong Also Rises. Hot on the (high) heels of Sand in My Bra and Whose Panties Are These? comes this collection of the best in women’s travel and humor writing. These Ms-adventures take...
Wings
Gifts of Art, Life, and Travel in France
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Erin Byrne captures the essence of France through unique and authentic experiences in Wings from Victory, her collection of stories about travel in one of the world's most alluring countries. Some or her experiences come through serendipity, others via good fortune, still others by accident. But each...
A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean
A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Anyplace it's Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"If you look at a map, you will see that the island chain known as the Caribbean, or, to confuse you, the West Indies, lies between Florida and South America and resembles a string of gems or possibly drool." And so begins author Gary Buslik's tale of tropical adventure. Each chapter of this often hilarious...
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009
True Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
This best-selling, award-winning series presents the finest accounts of women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples - and themselves. The common threads connecting the stories are a woman’s perspective and lively storytelling to make the reader laugh, cry, wish...
Deer Hunting in Paris
A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
What happens when a Korean-American preacher’s kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a café in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes...
You Unstuck
Mastering the New Rules of Risk-taking in Work and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In You Unstuck, Libby Gill uses cases studies, client stories from her coaching work, and brain research to help readers understand the biological basis of fears that hold them back. She shows how to reframe what she calls Riskophobia, turn off the fear voices, and circumvent ancient defense systems....
Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls
A Novel of International Intrigue, Pork-Crazed Termites, and Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Iranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat on linoleum, when each member of the gang decides to ladle...
by Susan Van Allen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Imagine creating your Italian dream vacation with a fun-loving savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear. Go along with writer Susan Van Allen on a femme-friendly ride up and down the boot, to explore this extraordinarily enchanting country where Venus (Vixen Goddess of Love and Beauty) and The...
by Susan Van Allen
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Imagine creating an Italian dream vacation with a fun-loving savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear. Go with writer Susan Van Allen on a femme-friendly ride up and down the boot, to explore an extraordinarily enchanting country where Venus (Vixen Goddess of Love and Beauty) and The Madonna...
The Soul of a Great Traveler
10 Years of Solas Award-Winning Travel Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
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Billy Gogan, American
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The Billy Gogan story is a fictional memoir told by an old Army general of his adventures as a young man. Billy Gogan, American, opens with recently orphaned Billy Gogan fleeing Ireland on the eve of the Great Hunger - either because he is the son of a dangerous revolutionary, or because his cousin...
by Amanda Summer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Told in a series of original essays with practical sidebar information, 100 Places in Greece Every Woman Should Go is for all lovers of Greece and the Greek way of life. Like all great travel writing, this volume goes beyond the guidebook and offers insight not only about where to go but why to go...
A Sense of Place
Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The...