Travel books for ladies.
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DAUGHTERS OF SHAME Jasvinder Sanghera (India/Pakistan)
DAUGHTERS OF SHAME: Jasvinder Sanghera exposes the plight of women in forced marriages, telling their harrowing and moving stories.
Price: AUD $8.00
DESERT DAWN Waris Dirie - by the author of the world bestselling Desert Flower
In this follow-up to the most excellent Desert Flower, Waris Dirie returns to Somalia.
Price: AUD $7.00
DESERT FLOWER Waris Dirie - The Extraordinary Life of a Desert Nomad (Africa \ Somalia)
DESERT FLOWER is an incredible read. Somalian Waris Dirie tells of her traumatic childhood including female circumsicion before becoming a famous model and spokesperson for women's rights in Africa.
Price: AUD $5.00
DESERT ROYAL by Jean Sasson
A royal Saudi Arabia memoir by the author of Princess. This is a used book in good condition: clean with light reading wear; pages are clean and tanning with age; minor shelf marks. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $5.00
DESIRING ITALY Edited by Susan Cahill - Women Writers Celebrate The Passions of a Country and Culture
This collection of passionate travel writings about Italy includes works by George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Mary McCarthy, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Patricia Hampl, and 23 others who reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so seductive to women.
Price: AUD $8.00
DEVI THE BANDIT QUEEN Richard Shears & Isobelle Gidley (India True Crime Biography)
DEVI THE BANDIT QUEEN: Phoolan Devie - Goddess of Flowers - was tortured and raped for 23 days then seeked revenge resulting in a massacre on St Valentines day with the death of twenty villages. Devi went on the run, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
Price: AUD $9.00
DIVORCED & GONE TO EUROPE Nancy Cawley
DIVORCED & GONE TO EUROPE - the title says it all... Nancy Cawley sews her wild oats in Europe AFTER raising a family.
Price: AUD $8.00
DREAMING OF EAST Barbara Hodgson - Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient (Middle East)
From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Western women visiting the Middle East discovered there a rare and precious commodity: freedom. This book explores the eduring fascination that the Middle East exerted on women of the West, both because of its exotic trappings and because of the freedom it seemed to offer.
Price: AUD $9.00
EAT PRAY LOVE One Woman's Search For Everything by Elizabeth Gilbert (Italy India Bali)
EAT PRAY LOVE - Elizabeth Gilbert's best-seller that inspired the Julia Roberts movie. The author gets divorced in her thirties and travels Rome, India and Bali.
Price: AUD $5.00
EDUCATING ALICE Alice Steinbech - Adventures of a Curious Woman
Educating Alice is the follow-up to the popular travel book Without Reservations.
Price: AUD $5.00
EMBRACING THE DRAGON Polly Greeks - A Woman's Journey Along The Great Wall of China
In EMBRACING THE DRAGON Polly Greeks walks the entire length of the Great Wall of China, and falls in love.
Price: AUD $14.00
ENKOP AI My Life with the Maasai by Catherine Oddie
A popular and controversial muzungu memoir: the author is a whitey who shacked up with a Masai warrior in Kenya.
Price: AUD $10.00
ESPRIT DE BATTUTA Pamela Watson - Alone Across Africa on a Bicycle
A scarce African cycling travel book.
Price: AUD $12.00
EVERY DAY IN TUSCANY Frances Mayes - Seasons of an Italian Life (Italy)
EVERY DAY IN TUSCANY: is Frances Mayes' follow-up to Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany.
Price: AUD $8.00
EXTRA VIRGIN Annie Hawes - Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria (Italy)
EXTRA VIRGIN - Two English sisters move to the olive growing regon of Liguria, North Western Italy.
Price: AUD $8.00
GEISHA Liza Dalby
Published with a new preface, this bestseller offers an intimate glimpse into a unique female community. Liz Dalby, the only non-Japanese woman ever to have trained as a geisha, reveals the realities of geisha life.
Price: AUD $8.00
GOING SOLO A Guide for women travelling alone by Merran White
A guide for going it alone for ladies.
Price: AUD $5.00
HELLO MISSUS A Girl's Own Guide to Foreign Affairs by Lynne Minion
A very interesting looking memoir, the author does foreign aid work in East Timor.
Price: AUD $10.00
HIGH ALBANIA Edith Durham - A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odyssey
Edith Durham began her travels late in life on her doctor's orders. She sailed to Montenegro and began a love affair with the Balkans that lasted the rest of her life. This is her passionate account of life in the formidable mountainous terrain of Northern Albania.
Price: AUD $15.00
HONEYMOON IN PURDAH An Iranian Journey
The author disguises herself as a honeymooner to get access to the Iran most of us will never see, looks like a great read. This is a used travel book in good, read condition: pages are clean and tanning at the edges with age; some light wear and creasing to corners; cover is clean with light wear; price marked on bottom edge of book with texta. Has been read a few times but a good reading copy. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $6.00





















