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An anthology of humorous women's travel stories includes misadventures with packing, fashion, language faux pas, exotic cuisine, romantic relationships, and border crossings.

Traces the author's decision to quit her job and travel the world for a year after suffering a midlife crisis and divorce. A journey that took her to three places in her quest to explore her own nature and learn the art of spiritual balance.

A search for an elusive customer leads a young bookseller to research the complicated history of her family in Rome and how it was shaped by mental illness, a communist murder trial, and devastating wartime losses.

Talks about an African adventure of a solo woman traveler whose overland excursion across the continent includes expected challenges, inevitable mishaps, and more than a few debacles.

Told in alternating voices, a travelogue capturing the changing relationship between a mother and her adult daughter follows their sixteen-city, twelve-country tour during which their adventures and mishaps brought them closer together.

"A transnational feminist autoethnography of traveling to twenty countries in one year to find healing and have a different relationship with pain"--

"Following the critically acclaimed 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, Susan Van Allen adds new gems to her selection of the best spots for female travelers in Italy's most popular cities, (Rome, Florence, and Venice), along with enticing Golden Day itineraries to make vacation dreams come true. Like a savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear, she guides readers to masterpieces where women are glorified--from Rome's Pieta to Florence's...