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  • A Motor-Flight Through France

    DescriptionA trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. As the Whartons embark on three separate journeys through the country in 1906 and 1907, accompanied first by Edith’s brother, Harry Jones, and then by Henry James, Edith is enamored by the freedom that this new form of ... Read more

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  • The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9

    True Stories from Around the World

    Edited by Lavinia Spalding ...
    Series Book 9 - Best Women's Travel Writing
    Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized national leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the ninth in that series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Away

    A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler

    Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one’s own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their experiences instantaneously. Thus, the act of chronicling one’s journey has never been more popular, nor ... Read more

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  • The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011

    True Stories from Around the World

    Series series Best Women's Travel Writing
    Since publishing A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing-that presents inspiring and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 12

    True Stories from Around the World

    Edited by Lavinia Spalding ...
    Series series Best Women's Travel Writing
    As Andrew McCarthy wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “For more than 20 years, Travelers’ Tales has been publishing books that might best be described as the literary equivalent of a group of travelers sitting around a dim cafe, sipping pints or prosecco and trading their best stories.”Now, new from Travelers’ Tales comes The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 12: True Stories from Around ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10

    True Stories from Around the World

    Edited by Lavinia Spalding ...
    Series Book 10 - Best Women's Travel Writing
    In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, thirty celebrated and emerging writers invite you to ride shotgun as they travel the globe to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The essays are as diverse as the destinations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling that will make you laugh, weep, wish you were there, or thank your ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frommer's New Orleans

    Few cities anywhere are as vibrant, historically rich, and just plain fun as New Orleans. But it’s not a “dummy proof” destination. Too many travelers leave town wondering what all the fuss is about.That doesn’t happen to those carrying this book. Written by long time residents Lavinia Spalding and Tami Fairweather, Frommer’s EasyGuide to New Orleans introduces travelers to the experiences other ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8

    True Stories from Around the World

    Edited by Lavinia Spalding ...
    Series Book 8 - Best Women's Travel Writing
    Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the eighth in an annual series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing-that ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11

    True Stories from Around the World

    Edited by Lavinia Spalding ...
    Series Book 11 - Best Women's Travel Writing
    Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized national leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the tenth in that series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 13

    True Stories from Around the World

    Edited by Lavinia Spalding ...
    Series series The Best Women's Travel Writing
    Includes New York Times bestselling authors Roxane Gay, Ann Hood, Marcia DeSanctis, and Susan OrleanThe newest collection in this award-winning series from Travelers' Tales invites you to join twenty-seven inspiring and thoughtful writers as they traverse the planet, crisscrossing all seven continents and exploring the ways travel can illuminate, heal, inform, and transform a life.The essays probe ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Motor-Flight Through France

    by Edith Wharton ...
    A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented “motor-car” to explore the cities and countryside of France. As the Whartons embark on three separate journeys through the country in 1906 and 1907, accompanied first by Edith’s brother, Harry Jones, and then by Henry James, Edith is enamored by the freedom that this new form of transport has ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    A Motor Flight through France

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Narrated by Robin Siegerman ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 37 min

    In A Motor Flight through France, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edith Wharton invites readers on an extraordinary journey through the French countryside at the dawn of the motor age. Based on her 1906 road trip—an ambitious endeavor at a time when automobiles were still a novelty—Wharton’s account captures the thrill of early travel by car and the unparalleled freedom it offered to the adventurous ... Read more

    $28.13 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus