Books:

The Hawaiian Archipelago By Isabella Bird. Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.

Women of Discovery A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World by Milbry Polk, Mary Tiegreen. Across the centuries and from many lands, women have set forth on journeys of exploration. Visionaries, adventurers, artists, and scientists, these women challenged the limitations, both physical and social, of their times and, in the face of formidable challenges, expanded the world's body of knowledge. Yet despite their extraordinary achievements, they have remained unknown and unsung for too long.

Amelia Earhart : A Biography By Doris L. Rich. "Rich's portrait reveals a determined, independent woman, brave enough "to go where no one had gone and to do what no one had done" . . . [and] illuminates the public and private life of a legendary flier, bringing her back to earth as a courageous woman who dreamed and dared all." (Christian Science Monitor)

Amelia Earhart's Shoe : Is the Mystery Solved? by Thomas F. King (Editor), Randall Jacobson, Kenton Spading, Karen Ramey Burns. Can modern science tell us what happened to Amelia Earhart? The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has spent fifteen years searching for the famous lost pilot using everything from archival research and archaeological survey to side-scan sonar and the analysis of radio wave propagation. In this spellbinding book, four of TIGHAR's scholars offer tantalizing evidence that the First Lady of the Air and her navigator Fred Noonan landed on an uninhabited tropical island but perished before they could be rescued. Do they have Amelia's shoe? Parts of her airplane? Are her bones tucked away in a hospital in Fiji? Come join their fascinating expedition and examine the evidence for yourself!

Amazing Traveler: Isabella Bird The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer - by Evelyn Kaye. Award-winning biography of 19th adventure Isabella Bird who visited Colorado, Hawaii and Australia, and gallivanted around Japan, China, Korea, Russia and Tibet writing best-selling books about her travels.

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride Based on a True Story. By Pam Munoz Ryan, Brian Selznick (Illustrator).On a clear April evening in 1933, two outspoken and strong-minded friends slipped away from a formal dinner party to have a little unconventional fun. What made this event remarkable was that the two were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, dining at the White House; their entertainment of choice was to fly an airplane on a loop from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. Pooh-poohing Secret Service agents' concerns that this activity hadn't been "approved," the celebrated aviator and the First Lady stole away before dessert was served, and took to the sky.

The Rough Guide to Women Travel By Natania Jansz (Editor), Miranda Davies (Editor), Emma Drew (Editor). 1st Hand Accounts from More Than 60 Countries. This anthology now combines extended articles and extracts from our favourite women travel writers and journalists (Sara Wheeler on Antarctica; Isabella Tree on Nepal and Papua New Guinea; Miranda France on Argentina; Lieve Joris on Syria, Melanie McGrath on Las Vegas; Margaret Atwood on the Galapagos islands, to name just some) with over seventy-five entirely new and contemporary travel pieces. Leafing through the pages we hope you feel, as we did, that you've joined up with one of the wildest, most inclusive women's tours around. Enjoy the trip and be sure to write.

The Valleys of the Assassins By Freya Stark. First published in 1934, Freya Stark's classic tale of her travels through Persia has been reprinted once again and is just as much a gem now as when first published. At the age of 37, Stark shocked her fellow Brits by moving to Baghdad, befriending the locals, studying Arabic and the Koran, and then setting out on expeditions to remote and uncharted areas of the Islamic world by foot, donkey, camel, and car. With her fascination for secret Islamic societies, she resolved to travel to the former home of the Cult of the Assassins and locate an ancient fortress described by Marco Polo. (The founder of the cult inspired his recruits to murder through the use of hashish, hence their name Hashishin, from which we get assassin.)

A Journey of One's Own : Uncommon Advice for the Independent Woman Traveler ByThalia Zepatos. A Journey of One's Own was written for women who long to travel but are a little hesitant about facing the open road alone. Author Thalia Zepatos has traveled by camel across the Thar Desert, hitchhiked along the Malay Peninsula, and trekked the high country of Nepal, and in this book she offers advice, encouragement, and wisdom to the women she hopes will follow in her footsteps.

Women of the Four Winds The Adventures of Four of America’s First Women Explorers. Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain: Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane Goodalls and Sally Rides, these women represent a fascinating but forgotten era in the literature of exploration.

Louise Arner Boyd: Arctic Explorer One of the Notable Americans series for middle readers. When Louise Arner Boyd inherited millions she could have continued living a life of luxury on her San Rafael, California estate. Instead, she pursued her dream of becoming the world's formost explorer of the Arctic regions. Over the next forty years she and her crews mapped unexplored regions and made dozens of botantical discoveries.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains In 1854, at the age of twenty-two, Isabella Bird left England and began traveling as a cure for her ill health. Over the years she explored Asia, the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, and both the Eastern and Western United States. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains contains letters written to her sister during her six-month journey through the Colorado Rockies in 1873.

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia, by Janet Wallach. A biography of the woman who, indirectly, was the catalyst for many of the troubles in the Middle East, including the Gulf War. In 1918, Gertrude Bell drew the region's proposed boundaries on a piece of tracing paper. Her qualifications for doing so were her extensive travel, her fluency in both Persian and Arabic, and her relationships with sheiks and tribal and religious leaders.

Videos:

American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days (1997) PBS Home Video. Many called her "the best reporter in America," and Nellie Bly truly achieved amazing successes. She got herself committed to an institution to expose abuses of the mentally ill and actually did travel around the world in 72 days. Discover the woman behind these and many other astonishing feats -- a serious yet spunky celebrity who mastered life through her cunning and wit.

The American Experience: Fly Girls A fantastic video! As America geared up to fight in World War II there was a pressing need for military pilots, and women answered the call. This documentary about the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, an installment of the American Experience series on PBS, tells their oft overlooked story. The WASPs were founded by a famous female aviator, Jacqueline Cochran, and after rigorous flight training at an all-female airbase in Texas, more than 1,000 of them ferried new aircraft to military installations around the United States.

Misc:

Women Who Dared II A beautiful and inspirational poster with pictures and short vignettes of "women who dared."

How to Break In as a Travel Writer This book will tell you what it's really like to be a travel writer, where and how to sell your travel material, and how much you can expect to earn.  Current active travel writers will share with you their experiences and their insider tips on how you can be a successful travel writer. And "Your Game Plan" wil get you started TODAY, with a step-by-step action plan! Dinosaur Teeth and more at Collectology.com “But Doctor! It’s only been 65 million years since my last checkup!” Got Maps? Maps.com is *the* place for maps online. Wall maps, travel maps, travel guides, online atlas, travel directions. CLICK HERE! How Much Joy Can You Stand - A Place to Face Your Fears and Create Your Dreams! A wonderful website with lots of free tools, a Joy Store, free newsletter and so much more. Don't miss this site! CLICK HERE Your message could be here! Click for details...

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Women Who Dared II

A beautiful and inspirational poster with pictures and short vignettes of "women who dared."

American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days (1997)

PBS Home Video. Many called her "the best reporter in America," and Nellie Bly truly achieved amazing successes. She got herself committed to an institution to expose abuses of the mentally ill and actually did travel around the world in 72 days. Discover the woman behind these and many other astonishing feats -- a serious yet spunky celebrity who mastered life through her cunning and wit.

The Hawaiian Archipelago

By Isabella Bird. Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.

Women of Discovery

A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World by Milbry Polk, Mary Tiegreen. Across the centuries and from many lands, women have set forth on journeys of exploration. Visionaries, adventurers, artists, and scientists, these women challenged the limitations, both physical and social, of their times and, in the face of formidable challenges, expanded the world's body of knowledge. Yet despite their extraordinary achievements, they have remained unknown and unsung for too long.

Amelia Earhart : A Biography

By Doris L. Rich. "Rich's portrait reveals a determined, independent woman, brave enough "to go where no one had gone and to do what no one had done" . . . [and] illuminates the public and private life of a legendary flier, bringing her back to earth as a courageous woman who dreamed and dared all." (Christian Science Monitor)