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Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates—A Woman’s Trek through Turkey: Üstün Bilgen-Reinart
Published by Dundurm Press, 2007, 240 pages Üstün Bilgen-Reinart is a Turkish woman, who moved to Canada to study when she was 18 and stayed on. But in the late 1990s, she moved back to Turkey to spend more time… Continue reading
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Unfathomable City—A New Orleans Atlas: Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker
Published by University of California Press, 2013, 166 pages This is a look at New Orleans in all its complexities and contradictions, with essays written by musicians, activists, environmentalists, Native Americans, and Arabs. Each essay looks at a particular aspect:… Continue reading
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On The Noodle Road—From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta: Jen Lin-Liu
by Jen Lin-Liu Published by Riverhead Books, 2013, 400 pages Food and travel—what’s not to like? This is a book about food across cultures—in this case, pasta in all its forms (I use the term to include noodles, dumplings, etc.).… Continue reading
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Tracks—A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback: Robyn Davidson
Published by Bloomsbury, 1980, 262 pages I’ve often wondered what it would be like to strip myself of all the expectations that society has of me and pit myself against the elements. Who am I really, under all those layers?… Continue reading
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Forward—Letters Written on a Trip Around the World: Lina Boegli
Published by Cornell University Library / Legare Street Press, first published in 1904, 326 pages Alone in Cracow (in what was then Austria) and bored and lonely, Swiss pioneer traveler Lina Boegli decided to see if a woman could work… Continue reading
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Riding with Ghosts: Gwen Maka
Published by Eye Books, 2000, 276 pages Gwen Maka always knew that she would set off on a Grand Tour someday. When she was in her 40s after her children had left home and her dog had died, she made… Continue reading
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Indonesia etc.—Exploring the Improbable Nation: Elizabeth Pisani
Published by W. W. Norton & Company / Granta Publications, 2014, 405 pages Indonesia is a complex country. It is made up of 13,466 islands with over 360 ethnic groups and 719 languages. When it gained independence from the Dutch… Continue reading
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