Deborah Milstein, Jennifer De Leon, Sara Fraser, and Jennifer Percy

Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome Deborah Milstein, Jennifer De Leon, Sara Fraser, and Kathleen Spivack, contributors to The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010, for an evening of world-traveling tales.

The Best Women’s Travel Writing series presents the finest accounts of women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples—and themselves. The common threads connecting the stories are a woman’s perspective and lively storytelling to make the reader laugh, cry, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. From climbing a volcano in Ecuador to running a kennel for pariah dogs in India to helping prepare meals in Iran, the points of view and perspectives are global and the themes eclectic, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.

In The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010:

    * A search for the perfect wave in New Zealand provides a lesson in love

    * Curiosity leads to an understanding of political activism and human rights in Burma

    * A childless American is adopted by a six-year-old and becomes part of the family in Italy

    * Cultural understanding deepens in surprising ways through language lessons in Vietnam

    * On a fact-finding mission in Afghanistan, a retired professor learns that peace is everything

    * A day on a nude beach in the Netherlands gives a self-described "prude" a new appreciation of body types, and comfort with her own body