The Best Women’s Travel Writing – Volume 11 – True stories from around the world –

“The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 11 presents stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves.

The common threads connecting these stories are a female perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. The 31 true travel stories in this year’s collection are, as always, wildly diverse in theme and location. They tell of places like California and Cuba, Switzerland and Singapore, Iran and Iceland, Montana and Mexico and Mongolia and Mali, our own back yards and some of the farthest, most extreme corners of the world.
They are the personal stories we can’t help but collect when we travel, stories of reaching out to embrace the unfamiliar and creating cross-cultural connections while learning more about ourselves.”

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Lavinia Spalding
On the Migrant Trail, Zora O’Neill, TURKEY/GREECE
The Interpretation of Sighs, Jill K. Robinson, SWITZERLAND
Sono Felice, Samantha Schoech, ITALY
Grounded, Jenna Scatena, OMAN
Power, Twenty-Four Hour, Elen Turner, NEPAL
You Teach American Way, Jennifer Kelley, THE CZECH REPUBLIC
The Ritual, Maxine Rose Schur, IRAN
Finding the Words, Allegra Hyde,BULGARIA
Oscar’s Dreamland, Christine Loomis, MONTANA
The Living Infinite, Anna Vodicka, PALAU
Rerouted, Colette Hannahan, FRANCE
Claustrophilia, Sarah Gilman, MONGOLIA
Stray Cat Strut, Rachel Levin, CUBA
Pool of Memories, Lindsey Crittenden, CALIFORNIA
Spinning in Lahore, Holly H. Jones, PAKISTAN
The End of Something, Janis Cooke Newman, ARIZONA
Goodnight, Sweetheart, Marcia DeSanctis, RUSSIA
The Bad Place, Maggie Downs, UGANDA
A Long Night’s Journey into Spring, Colleen Kinder, ICELAND
Gratitude Day, Sara C. Bathum, ETHIOPIA
Curandero, Catherine Watson, MEXICO
Call Your Mother, Abbie Kozolchyk, SINGAPORE
A Country Tradition, Julie Callahan, HUNGARY/BRATISLAVA
Outsider Again, Yukari Iwatani Kane, JAPAN
Waning Moon, Pam Mandel, HAWAII
Rich Country, Anne P. Beatty, NEPAL
I Am Here, in This Morning Light, Sandra Gail Lambert, FLORIDA
Heartbeats on Teshima, Suzanne Kamata, JAPAN
Reconnaissance, Erin Byrne, FRANCE
Delle Donne, Katharine Harer, ITALY
The Storytelling Animal, Anna Badkhen, MALI
Acknowledgments, About the Editor