Travel books for ladies.
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THE BLESSINGS OF A GOOD THICK SKIRT Mary Russell - Women Travellers and Their World (Worldwide)
THE BLESSINGS OF A GOOD THICK SKIRT: a celebration of great lady travellers.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE BRIDAL BOAT Ye Dabing - Marriage Customs of China's Fifty Five Ethnic Minorities (China)
THE BRIDAL BOAT: a rare and fascinating looking book on Chinese customs.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE GATES OF DAMASCUS Lieve Joris (Syria)
In The Gates of Damascus author Lieve Joris paints an intimate portrait of contemporary Arab society.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE HORSE BOY Rupert Isaacson - A Father's Quest to Heal His Son (Mongolia)
The Horse Boy is authr Rupert Isaacson's account of taking his autistic son to Mongolia for a horse riding adventure.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL Deborah Rodriguez - The Art of Perms, Friendship and Freedom (Afghanistan)
The Kabul Beauty School is author Deborah Rodriguez's account of establishing a beauty school in Kabul to help Afghan women support themselves.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE LONG WAY HOME Lydia Laube - Nobody Goes That Way (Saudi Arabia Africa Egypt Sudan Kenya India)
THE LONG WAY HOME follows Lydia Laube's uber popular Behind the Veil, she returns to Saudi Arabia and takes the long way home via Egypt, Sudan, Kenya and India.
Price: AUD $9.00
THE MAESTRO'S TABLE Judith Armstrong - Food, Talk and Convivio (Italy)
Author Judith Armstrong moves to rural Italy, not to Rome but to the small town of Dosson on the outskirts of Treviso, in the north-eastern province of Veneto.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE PRICE OF A DREAM The Story of the Grameen Bank by David Bornstein
A scarce and interesting look at the Grameem Bank which offers small loans to women so they can develop small businesses. This is a used book in good, read, ageing condition: pages are clean and tanning with age; cover has a few creases and general wear; light corner wear. A bit worn but perfectly readable and hard to find. 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 $8.00
THE SHADOWS OF ELISA LYNCH How a nineteenth century Irish courtesan became the most powerful woman in Paraguay by Sian Rees
An interesting looking history by a popular author. This is a used book in good condition: clean and aging lightly with light corner wear. 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 $10.00
THE THORN OF LION CITY Lucy Lum - A Memoir (Singapore)
THE THORN OF LION CITY: Lucy Lum's memoir of wartime Singapore.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE TIES THAT BIND Julietta Jameson - Six Journeys of a Lifetime
A popular travel book - the author follows six famous Australians as they return to their 'homelands'.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE UNSAVVY TRAVELLER Women's Comic Tales of Catastrophe
This book looks like a hoot, thirty-one lady writers respond to the question: "What happens when things go wrong".
Price: AUD $8.00
THE WHITE MASAI Corinne Hofmann (Kenya - Africa)
A very popular memoir by a European lady who fell in love with a Masai warrior in Kenya, Africa.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE WOMAN WHO FELL FROM THE SKY Jennifer Steil - My Year of Making News in Yemen (Middle East)
When Jennifer Steil is offered a job training young journalists in Yemen, she seizes the opportunity for a new adventure, despite the fact that she doesn't speak Arabic, loathes hot weather and has never taught a class in her life.
Price: AUD $8.00
TILL THE SUN GROWS COLD Maggie McCune - A Mother's Compelling Memoir of the Life of Her Daughter (Sudan Africa India)
Till the Sun Grows Cold is the biography of Emma McCune, and aid worker who married a Sudanese war lord, survived the civil war and was killed in a car accident later in Nairobi. Also the subject of the book Emma's War.
Price: AUD $8.00
TO THE HEART OF THE NILE Pat Shipman - Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
TO THE HEART OF THE NILE : the extraordinary true story of the unforgettable female adventurer Florence Baker.
Price: AUD $8.00
TRAVELER'S TALES A Woman's World edited by Marybeth Bond
A nice big anthology of travel yarns by ladies.
Price: AUD $9.00
TRAVELER'S TALES LOVE & ROMANCE Edited by Judith Babcock Wylie - True Stories of Passion on the Road (Worldwide)
A collection of true and saucey travel stories from the most excellent Traveller's Tales Guides series.
Price: AUD $8.00
TRAVELLING LIGHT Robyn Davidson
Travelling Light is Robyn Davidson's collection of various articles from her amazing travels over the years.
Price: AUD $8.00
TRUE PLEASURES A Memoir of Women in Paris by Lucinda Holdforth
A scarce France history\travel book. 'Meet the dazzling women of Paris: from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Madame de Stael to Pamela Harriman; Napoleon’s Josephine to Edith Wharton.'
Price: AUD $12.00
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