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Travel can be sacred, an escape, and always enlightening. Women explorers and travelers are a special breed. Some were also incredible writers, recording their cross-cultural impressions with stunning vividness, often crossing into the most patriarchal cultures. The editors and a team of contemporary writers profile 22 courageous women who form a grand tradition. Among them, Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), Fanny Lewald (1811-89), Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922), Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), Anais Nin (1903-77), Freya Stark (1893-1993), Ruth Gruber (1911- ), Oriana...

Pilgrimage is one of the most visible and pervasive features of Hinduism. Every year the Warkaris carry palanquins, called palkhis, bearing sandals representing the feet of their saints from various towns to Pandharpur in Maharashtra--to the Temple of Vitoba.

Mokashi accompanied the oldest and most revered of the palanquin processions, the palkhi of Jnaneshwar Maharaj, on its two-week journey....

How many times have you worked with or met then asked someone, "Have you been here or done this?" Many have said that they've lived all their lives where they were born, or only eighty miles away, have never seen the ocean We decided, with no children, only our cat, to spend our savings to get in our VW camper van and see what the great outdoors of the United States have to offer. To our surprise, it was the opportunity of a lifetime Each season and each state has history, splendor, and events to spend time to enjoy.
We now own and operate a small bed-and-breakfast on the Oregon...

Yet there isn t a train goes by all day
But I hear its whistle shrieking....
Yet there isn t a train I wouldn t take,
No matter where it s going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Travel"

"Yet there isn t a train I wouldn t take" is a collection of stories about favorite train journeys by an inveterate railway enthusiast and train traveler. A half century career as an engineer, Naval officer, and university administrator took Bill Middleton to almost every part of the globe, and everywhere he took with him an abiding interest in railways, and a notebook and camera to record his...