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The Best Women's Travel Writing
2009
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Book released February 2009. Stay tuned for more
information.
- Travelers' Tales, 2009.
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The Best Women's Travel Writing
2008
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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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There may be no more continents (or psychedelic drugs) to "discover,"
but if you listen closely to the travel experiences of the women in this
book, you will indeed here the distant—and
often not distant at all—melody
of serendipity.
- Linda Ellerbee, Introduction
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The Best Women's Travel Writing
2007
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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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Since
the publication of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’
Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature.
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The Best Women's Travel Writing
2006
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These inspiring, uplifting tales are told by women who traveled to the
ends of the earth to discover new places, people, and, ultimately,
facets of themselves. 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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Other stories include discovering Russia at 3,000 feet, learning to
dance the tango in Argentina, and journeying from Senegal to Mali on a
horse.
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The Best Women's Travel Writing
2005
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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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Everywhere
I look women are traveling and writing about what it means to be a woman
in the world.
- Mary Morris, from the Preface
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The Unsavvy Traveler: Women's Comic Tales
of Catastrophe
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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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Brainy,
exotic, fearless and funny, The Unsavvy Traveler is the perfect
travel companion (especially when exploring your sofa at home, where
it's safe).
- Cameron Tuttle, author of
The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want
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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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These
ladies put the pedal to the metal and show that the road is often a map
to the soul.
- Holly Morris, creator of Adventure Divas.
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Her Fork in the Road: Women
Celebrate Food and Travel
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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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An
unforgettable taste of the connection between the table and the
world.
- Alice Waters, chef/owner Chez Panisse.
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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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For
these legendary men and women, no obstacle was ever too formidable, no
endeavor too daunting. Their heroic deeds have shaped our world.
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Time
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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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Avoiding sensationalism, the book focuses on the
political causes rather than the bloody results, and uses maps, color
photos, and historical black-and-white photos to illustrate.
- Horn Book
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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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The author is to be commended for the
tedious work required to take mounds of contemporary information that is
changing hourly and turn it into easy-to-use reading material.
- Horn Book
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Full Circle, by Sheila Kingston Dean
Editor
Edited Dean's first book, Full Circle, which is set in
Wilmington, North Carolina, during the 1898
massacre of the black middle class. The story is about a young black
professional woman, Terry Weeks, who's in search herself. Full of
adventure and personal insights.
- Joseph Beatrice Publishing, 2003.
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