As we usher in the new year, it seems fitting to pay homage to the old one. This is exactly what Traver’s Tales has done with The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008, edited by Lucy McCauley.It’s a collection of travel essays from around the world that exemplifies what we’re all about here at Wanderlust and Lipstick: Women writers, […]
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Book Review: Encounters with the Middle East
Photo Credit: Traveler’s Tales In this compilation of true travel stories edited by Nesreen Khashan and Jim Bowman, you will receive a well rounded and accurate peek into Middle Eastern culture from the Western perspective. Whether you are exposed to the possibly unconsidered perks of arranged marriages in The Promise Coffee, a young archeology student’s […]
Antarctica: Life on the Ice
Photo Credit: Amazon.Com Vicariously explore the bottom of the world with this collection of very personal essays, edited by Susan Fox Rogers. Contributed by various authors, all of whom have lived and worked in Antarctica for varying amounts of time, this title provides an inside look at life on the ice as it actually is. […]