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Reading Travel Books by Women
Welcome to this site! Many of the travel books featured in book reviews in the mainstream media tend to be by men, although that is slowly changing. On this site, I will be highlighting travel books written by women (and… Continue reading
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Shalimar—A Story of Place and Migration: Davina Quinlivan
Published by Little Toller, 2021, 154 pages “Shalimar is the bridge between my father’s world and my perception of it, not a real place but one of our own making, filled with his things, his stories, but also mine and… Continue reading
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Stories of the Sahara: Sanmao
Translated from Chinese by Mike FuPublished by Bloomsbury Publishing, 1976, 416 pages Sanmao, a Taiwanese writer, had always been attracted to the desert. In the early 1970s, she and her Spanish partner José moved to El Aaiún, the capital of… Continue reading
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A Foodie Afloat: Di Murrell
Published by Troubador Publishing, 2020, 256 pages There are people who travel so they can tick places off their lists, and there are those who immerse themselves in their surroundings. Di Murrell belongs to the latter, having spent most of… Continue reading
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South to America—A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation: Imani Perry
Published by HarperCollins, 2022, 432 pages To understand the United States, you need to understand the South, its history and its legacy. That is the premise of this book by Imani Perry, a Black scholar from Birmingham, Alabama, who has… Continue reading
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Food on the Move—Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World: edited by Sharon Hudgins
Published by Reaktion Books, 2019, 256 pages There is something magical about sitting on a train, eating well while staring out of the window at a constantly changing vista. So when I came across this book that combines two of… Continue reading
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The White Mosque—A Silk Road Memoir: Sofia Samatar
Published by Catapult / C Hurst and Co Publishers, 2022, 336 pages “I’m haunted by a little piece of history, the story of a small, hardy, stubborn group of people who travelled here more than a hundred years ago.” In… Continue reading
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To The Lake – A Balkan Journey of War and Peace: Kapka Kassabova
Published by Graywolf Press / Granta Publications, 2020, 416 pages “To journey to the place of your ancestors, you must be prepared to see what it is easier to deny.” This is the account not just of a physical, but… Continue reading
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Wanderland—A Search for Magic in the Landscape: Jini Reddy
Published by Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2020, 272 pages “I was…sick of the anxiety. This was no way to live, I realized if I wanted to hang on to my sanity. It was time to just do the thing that I secretly… Continue reading
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Soundings—Journeys in the Company of Whales: Doreen Cunningham
Published by Blackstone Pub / Scribner, 2022, 320 pages “Then, the whales came. I heard them before I saw them, their breath hissing through the air. Punctuating the silence. The sound was so startling, so alien, it broke the world… Continue reading
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Basilicata—Authentic Italy: Karen Haid
Published by Hiller Press, 2020, 238 pages Karen Haid, who has spent many years in southern Italy and speaks Italian, explores Basilicata, the “instep of the Italian boot”. Basilicata is sandwiched between Puglia, Campania and Calabria, with Greek temples, medieval… Continue reading
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