A Woman Alone - Travel Tales From Around the Globe

Informationen zum Autor Faith Conlon is the publisher of Seal Press. Ingrid Emerick coedited Gifts of the Wild . Christina Henry de Tessan has traveled from Morocco to Russia to Paris. All three live in Seattle. Klappentext The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel and tell their funny, thrilling, occasionally terrifying, and ultimately transformative stories of navigating some of the most unusual destinations on the globe. Zusammenfassung The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so for the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian trading route. Faith Adiele, a black Buddhist nun, enters a deserted train station at 3:00 a.m. in a Thai village controlled by armed bandits. Ena Singh negotiates with Russian police to visit the blue-domed city of Samarkand. In A Woman Alone , these women and others tell their funny, thrilling, occasionally terrifying, ultimately transformative stories of navigating some of the most unusual destinations on the globe.

Product details

• Authors: F. Conlon, Faith Conlon, Faith Emerick Conlon, Christina de Tessan, Ingrid Emerick
• Assisted by: Faith Conlon (Editor), Christina de Tessan (Editor), Christina Henry de Tessan (Editor), Ingrid Emerick (Editor), Christina Henry De Tessan (Editor)
• Publisher: Seal press feminist publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2001
• EAN: 9781580050593
• ISBN: 978-1-58005-059-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Adventura Books; Adventura Books
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Travel - General