Comments on: 5 Travel Memoirs by Women http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/ travel culture worldwide Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dodgewoodacademy http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-90376 Dodgewoodacademy Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:18:00 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-90376 I'm not crazy about Eat, Prey, Love as she is more interested in herself than the countries she went to. I can't believe she sat in an ashram surrounded by foreigners for months in India when she could be exploring that fantastic country. I recommend a book called The Day of a Thousand Surfing Buddha. It's a love story/ memoir of two travelers who meet in the Himalayas and go in search of a rumored temple where there is supposed to be a thousand statues of buddha surfing.   I’m not crazy about Eat, Prey, Love as she is more interested in herself than the countries she went to. I can’t believe she sat in an ashram surrounded by foreigners for months in India when she could be exploring that fantastic country.

I recommend a book called The Day of a Thousand Surfing Buddha. It’s a love story/ memoir of two travelers who meet in the Himalayas and go in search of a rumored temple where there is supposed to be a thousand statues of buddha surfing.  

]]> By: Lenay http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-77862 Lenay Tue, 10 May 2011 16:08:57 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-77862 Great list! I can't wait to dive into Tales of a Female Nomad. A couple of other travel memoirs that I've enjoyed: Bread of Angels by Stephanie Saldana. She travels to Syria on a Fulbright scholarship to learn Arabic during the Iraq war. I loved her writing and also just the right amount of love story thrown into the mix. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn. This was a lovely memoir of her spontaneous adventure to Paris with a culinary focus. Great for foodies! Great list! I can’t wait to dive into Tales of a Female Nomad.

A couple of other travel memoirs that I’ve enjoyed:

Bread of Angels by Stephanie Saldana. She travels to Syria on a Fulbright scholarship to learn Arabic during the Iraq war. I loved her writing and also just the right amount of love story thrown into the mix.

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn. This was a lovely memoir of her spontaneous adventure to Paris with a culinary focus. Great for foodies!

]]> By: Magali Devrin http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-67924 Magali Devrin Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:46:31 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-67924 Fried eggs with chopsticks by polly evans!!! Hilarious travel stories of a woman travelling through China! Fried eggs with chopsticks by polly evans!!! Hilarious travel stories of a woman travelling through China!

]]> By: R http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-68025 R Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:02:22 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-68025 Probably, Life in Mexico, by Frances Calderon de la Barca, first published in 1843, before travel memoires were not about the places but about the authors, and before they were supposed to be weak bildungsroman-pretending metaphors Probably, Life in Mexico, by Frances Calderon de la Barca, first published in 1843, before travel memoires were not about the places but about the authors, and before they were supposed to be weak bildungsroman-pretending metaphors

]]> By: Michelle Kingston http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-67441 Michelle Kingston Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:52:43 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-67441 Aside from my own travel blog, www.chileanbesos.wordpress.com, which I am currently writing as I study abroad in Santiago, Chile, I absolutely loved Eat, Pray, Love and am trying to create my own version of Eat, Pray, Love as I travel throughout South America. My dream of becoming a travel writer in the future feels closer and closer as I travel more and more, write more and more, and now, have the opportunity to read more and more about other women writing, traveling, and sharing their thoughts with the world. Thanks for the list of new reading material! Aside from my own travel blog, http://www.chileanbesos.wordpress.com, which I am currently writing as I study abroad in Santiago, Chile, I absolutely loved Eat, Pray, Love and am trying to create my own version of Eat, Pray, Love as I travel throughout South America.

My dream of becoming a travel writer in the future feels closer and closer as I travel more and more, write more and more, and now, have the opportunity to read more and more about other women writing, traveling, and sharing their thoughts with the world.

Thanks for the list of new reading material!

]]> By: Joy Williams http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-66822 Joy Williams Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:42:08 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-66822 The suggested books sound fantastic! I want to get them all! When it comes to women travel writers, I naturally think of Isabella Bird. What a character she must have been! I am particularly intrigued by the fact that she traveled in the more remote areas of Japan (where I live now) in the 1800s. Her observations about things are not always PC -- but still, great reading. The suggested books sound fantastic! I want to get them all!

When it comes to women travel writers, I naturally think of Isabella Bird. What a character she must have been! I am particularly intrigued by the fact that she traveled in the more remote areas of Japan (where I live now) in the 1800s. Her observations about things are not always PC — but still, great reading.

]]> By: Coco Murphy http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-67505 Coco Murphy Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:59:02 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-67505 You really should include Polly Letofsky's 3mph: the Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World. OMG -- so funny. She seemed to have a knack for taking some tough topics and tough times and turn them into belly laughs. It is truly one of the best books I've ever read. A true testament to women, travel and the discovery outside our own comfort zones. You really should include Polly Letofsky’s 3mph: the Adventures of One Woman’s Walk Around the World. OMG — so funny. She seemed to have a knack for taking some tough topics and tough times and turn them into belly laughs.

It is truly one of the best books I’ve ever read. A true testament to women, travel and the discovery outside our own comfort zones.

]]> By: warren http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-67503 warren Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:39:08 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-67503 I may not be a woman but I appreciate your wonderful collection. Thank you for sharing. I may not be a woman but I appreciate your wonderful collection. Thank you for sharing.

]]> By: Anna the travel blanket gal http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-67558 Anna the travel blanket gal Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:05:52 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-67558 Great list for all us who like to travel,by proxy of in real. When you do get to actually follow in the steps of the authors of these great memoirs don't forget to add <a href="http://www.travel-blanket.com/" rel="nofollow">a travel blanket</a> to your travel gear, or even better still <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/travel-pillow-and-blanket" rel="nofollow">a travel pillow and blanket set</a> to keep you all snug wherever you may land. Great list for all us who like to travel,by proxy of in real. When you do get to actually follow in the steps of the authors of these great memoirs don’t forget to add a travel blanket to your travel gear, or even better still a travel pillow and blanket set to keep you all snug wherever you may land.

]]> By: Kristie http://matadornetwork.com/goods/5-travel-memoirs-by-women/#comment-67261 Kristie Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:11:21 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=3364#comment-67261 I LOVED Kite Strings of the Southern Cross by Laurie Gough and am in the middle of her second book, Kiss the Sunset Pig, which I'm loving even more. The author of Eat Pray Love has NOTHING on Laurie Gough. Elizabeth Gilbert is a spoiled rich brat who stays in posh resorts and can barely write while Laurie Gough is actually likable, traveling more the way I do, by the seat of her pants, sleeping inside redwood trees or sandstone caves, hitchhiking with hilarious strangers and truly being inspired by nature and the people she meets on the road. Her writing is lyrical and rich, her stories moving and reflective and many of them laugh-out-loud hilarious. I don't understand why some books make it to the best seller list and some don't. marketing I guess. I LOVED Kite Strings of the Southern Cross by Laurie Gough and am in the middle of her second book, Kiss the Sunset Pig, which I’m loving even more. The author of Eat Pray Love has NOTHING on Laurie Gough. Elizabeth Gilbert is a spoiled rich brat who stays in posh resorts and can barely write while Laurie Gough is actually likable, traveling more the way I do, by the seat of her pants, sleeping inside redwood trees or sandstone caves, hitchhiking with hilarious strangers and truly being inspired by nature and the people she meets on the road. Her writing is lyrical and rich, her stories moving and reflective and many of them laugh-out-loud hilarious. I don’t understand why some books make it to the best seller list and some don’t. marketing I guess.

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