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Books
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009
Contributing writer
This best-selling, award-winning series presents the finest accounts of women
who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples—and
themselves. In Kari’s essay, "Close Encounters," the intrepid kayaker goes in
search of icebergs and whales off Newfoundland’s northern coast.
- Travelers' Tales, 2009.
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The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008
Contributing writer
This fourth collection in an annual series is guaranteed to inspire women to
take their first trip or to continue exploring with wit, soul, and verve. In
Kari’s story, "On the Dark Side," two kayakers test their moxie on a windswept
adventure in Patagonia. They encounter wild horses, crazy currents, and
avalanches, experience the true temperature of glacial water, and discover the
importance of "rubber pants."
- Travelers' Tales, 2008.
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The Best Women's Travel Writing 2007
Contributing writer
The points of view and perspectives in this collection are both personal and
global, and the themes are eclectic, including stories that encompass spiritual
growth, romance, solo journeys, high adventure and misadventure. In Kari’s
story, "In Hot Water," the author comes face-to-face with her first near-death
experience.
- Travelers' Tales, 2007.
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The Best Women's Travel Writing 2006
Contributing writer
Another collection of inspiring, uplifting tales. Kari's story, "Awash in the
Jungle," tells about a camping mishap, when she and a friend hike into a
leech-ridden jungle to climb a mountain and return six days later with a lighter
load and just one boot.
- Travelers' Tales, 2006.
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The Best Women's Travel Writing 2005
Contributing writer
The common threads connecting the stories in this collection are a woman's
perspective; fresh, lively storytelling; and compelling narrative that makes
readers laugh, cry, wish they were there, or be grateful that they weren't.
Kari's story, "Outback Overview," tells of her experience on “the world's
longest mail run,” a 1,600-mile plane trip through Australia's Red Center.
- Travelers' Tales, 2005.
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The Unsavvy Traveler: Women's Comic Tales of
Catastrophe
Contributing writer
In this unabashedly honest and humorous collection, which offers both wild
slapstick and raised-eyebrow irony, a group of intrepid women travelers bare
their least dignified—and therefore most amusing—selves. They are the breezy,
insouciant trekkers who get lost in the jungle without guide, map or shoes; the
nervous expatriates navigating the perplexing twists of a new cultural
environment; or the irreproachable, unflappable travelers suddenly beset by the
demonic whims of destiny. In Kari's tale, "Awash in the Jungle," a few small
mistakes on a riverside trail lead two hikers into a big adventure.
- Seal Press, 2005.
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Drive: Women's True Stories from the Open Road
Contributing writer
Most of these stories contain an element of common experience that will resonate
with women readers (Library Journal). In Kari's story, "Cruising in My Caddy,"
the author hits the road to reconnect with old friends and relatives, and her
two-ton vehicle becomes one of the tale's main characters.
- Seal Press, 2002.
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Her Fork in the Road: Women Celebrate Food and Travel
Contributing writer
Editor Lisa Bach has assembled a savory sampling of essays that reflect the
profound relationship between women, food and travel. This literary feast
includes stories from M.F.K. Fisher, Ruth Reichl, Isabel Allende, Laurie Colwin,
Frances Mayes and many more. In Kari's story, "Hunger in the Himalayas," food is
a luxury item when money is short and the hike long.
- Travelers' Tales, 2001.
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LIFE: The Greatest Adventures of All Time
Contributing writer-reporter
Kari contributed six stories to this book of adventure tales. She takes you
thousands of feet above ground, where aviators Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager spent
nine days on their successful quest to become the first to circumnavigate the
earth by plane, and to the depths of the ocean with Jacques Cousteau, the father
of modern-day SCUBA. She also brings you on a trip through time: back to the
early 1900s, when the Wright Brothers first took flight over the sand dunes of
North Carolina and Charles Lindbergh made the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing
in his single-engine Spirit of St. Louis, and to the end of the 20th century,
when Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones floated around the world in 20 days,
becoming the first to circle the globe nonstop in a hot-air balloon.
- Time, Inc. 2000.
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Rwanda: Country Torn Apart
Author
This small African country gained international attention in 1994 when a civil
war erupted between the Hutus and Tutsis, leaving nearly 1 million dead and
millions of people displaced. This book examines the complex social, ethnic and
political history of Rwanda, and the ongoing struggles facing this nation in the
aftermath of war. Rwanda: Country Torn Apart is part of Lerner
Publications' World in Conflict series, a collection of books on ethnic
conflict, geared to grade 5 and above.
- Lerner Publications, 2000.
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Kurdistan: Region Under Siege
Author
This book, one of 12 in a World in Conflict series, explores the conflicts
between the Kurds and the governments of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, arguing
that Kurdistan's strategic position in the mountains at the juncture of these
four countries lies at the root of the conflict, and that throughout the Kurds'
history, their attempts to achieve independence or control their own destiny has
been met with brutal repression. The book takes a chronological approach,
detailing the Kurds' relationship with the Turkish government and then with
successive governments of Iran and Iraq. A final chapter explores international
efforts to provide humanitarian aid to Kurds and to resolve the conflict.
- Lerner Publications, 2000.
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