A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe

The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so for the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian trading route. Faith Adiele, a black Buddhist nun, enters a deserted train station at 3:00 a.m. in a Thai village controlled by armed bandits. Ena Singh negotiates with Russian police to visit the blue-domed city of Samarkand. In A Woman Alone, these women and others tell their funny, thrilling, occasionally terrifying, ultimately transformative stories of navigating some of the most unusual destinations on the globe.

Author: Faith Conlon

Publisher: Seal Press (CA)

Publication Date: Nov 02, 2001

Number of Pages: 320 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 158005059X

ISBN-13: 9781580050593