Best Women's Travel Writing 2009

The Best Travel Writing 2009 is the sixth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writingâÂ?Â?from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. These 29 stories cover the globe, from riding horseback across Mongolia to discovering Hemingway's ghost in Cuba to driving the long red road through equatorial Africa. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. With an Introduction by Tony Perrottet.