WITHOUT A GUIDE: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures
(TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY)

ed., 1994 MacFarlane, Walter & Ross (Canada)
256 pages
6 X 8.9 X 0.7 inches trade paperback
0-9219-1275-7
U.S.A. (Hungry Mind Press), also U.K. , Holland, Denmark.

Freely, determinedly, and independently, an unprecedented number of women are moving around the globe. To enjoy a week of anonymity, to take a break from domesticity, to make a discovery, their reasons for travel are as numerous as their destinations.

WITHOUT A GUIDE is a remarkable collection of seventeen nonfiction works that explores the variety and nature of contemporary women's travel. Such internationally celebrated names as Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Clare Boylan, Robyn Davidson, Susan Musgrave, E.Annie Proulx, Bapsi Sidhwa, Carol Shields, Alice Walker and others share the details of their most memorable voyages.

Their tales will take you on an exhilarating 1,700-mile camel trek across the rugged Australian Outback; through the natural splendour of Darwin's Galapagos; to the startling heights of Pakistan's Indus River gorge and in to the day-long utter darkness of a Northern Finland winter. Seductive, harrowing, and always enlightening, WITHOUT A GUIDE is for all lovers of literature and travel.