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Featuring stories by Holly Morris, Marcia DeSanctis, Apricot Anderson Irving, Laura Fraser, Amanda Jones, and Laura Resau.
About the Author
Lavinia Spalding is the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler, and coauthor of With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. Her work has also appeared in such publications as Sunset Magazine, Yoga Journal, Inkwell, and Post Road Magazine. She grew up in New Hampshire and Flagstaff, Arizona and graduated from the University of Arizona creative writing program. She has kept travel journals throughout thirty countries on five continents, and is the editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011 and The Best Women's Travel Writing 2012.
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K. J. CORCORAN
on August 28, 2013
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I have all 9 volumes and every other book on the market over the last 20 years of women's travel essays, as well as lot of other travel essay books. It's a great way both to escape AND to gather ideas for ones own future travel. This is my new favorite of the collection. The editor notes that the transformative effect of travel bears no direct relation to the distances involved, and she's right. I would add that my enjoyment of an these essays bears no direct relation to shared perspectives with the authors. In fact some of my favorite essays from this volume were written by authors who treasure things that I merely appreciate from a distance (motherhood, being a great cook). Vol 9 is noteworthy for the number of stories that took me someplace special, and left me nodding in appreciation when I finished them. If you're looking for fun escapes and new perspectives from excellent authors, this is the book for you .... Highly recommended!
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This anthology is another hit in the timeless series. The writing is rich and vivid as you follow the authors across the globe.
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Jocelyn Edelstein
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I love every story in these anthologies year after year - it's such a joy to make my way through each book under a blanket with coffee and think about the strong brigade of female nomads roaming the globe!
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Sharry Miller
on February 8, 2014
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The collection of 30 essays Lavinia Spalding put together in <i>The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World</i> is absolutely wonderful. The essays introduce the reader to places exotic and familiar, always in ways which bring the locations and their peoples vividly to life. Along the way, we get glimpses of the authors' lives, their sorrows and joys and learning experiences. Travel to Mexico, Cuba, Italy, Jordan, Egypt, Louisiana, Scotland, Russia, and many more locations with a variety of adventurous women. You're sure to get an itch to go somewhere new yourself, even if it's just down the road.
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Kristine McCaffrey
on January 27, 2014
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This collection of 30 travel essays written by women will entertain and enlighten both the adventurer and the arm-chair enthusiast. The stories range from searching for frogs in southern Louisiana to chasing tornadoes in Oklahoma to a Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico with a mother and her young son. Each author invites the reader to not just visit a place, but to see it through the lens of the people and the local culture, accompanying the writer on her own emotional journey. I enjoyed Blair Braverman's "Rangefinder Girl" as she trekked through Namibia studying black rhinos. Fearful at the beginning, she comes to appreciate the land and the creatures that occupy it, calmly flicking a scorpion from her leg on the last night. I also liked Holly Morris's "The Risky Path," a recounting of her fear of snakes and an effort to overcome it while in Bangladesh. She quotes Martin Luther King Jr., "Salvation is being on the right road, not having reached a destination." Each of these stories is a possible road, traversed by other women, but in the sharing perhaps they will spur you toward your own.
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on January 23, 2014
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I wrote the story "Chasing Tornadoes" in The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9 and just yesterday received this message from a stranger on Facebook: "Hi! I have just finished my wonderful book that I found your short story in and loved it! I did something really cool and slotted the volume into the English section of a bookstore in a suburb of Tokyo with a short message written inside in the hope that another English speaking traveller may pick it up & enjoy it as much as I did!" It's fun to think about that copy of The Best Women's Travel Writing making a journey of its own.
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