Women's Travel Books

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  • Findings: Kathleen Jamie

    Published by Graywolf Press, 2007, 190 pages I first read Findings during the Covid pandemic. It was a perfect book at a time when most of us had put our long-distance trips on hold and were instead taking our holidays closer… Continue reading

    Findings: Kathleen Jamie

  • This Cold Heaven—Seven Seasons in Greenland: Gretel Ehrlich

    Published by Vintage Books, 2001, 377 pages Greta Ehrich visited Greenland in the early 1990s. That was the first of many trips, as she fell under the spell of the place and its people. “My first trip to Greenland was… Continue reading

    This Cold Heaven—Seven Seasons in Greenland: Gretel Ehrlich

  • Tigers in Red Weather: Ruth Padel

    Published by Little, Brown / Abacus, 2005, 448 pages This is a travel book with a difference: it is also a call for the conservation of wildlife ⎯ tigers in particular ⎯ and wild spaces.  Ruth Padel is a single… Continue reading

    Tigers in Red Weather: Ruth Padel