Best Overland Travel Books Written by Women
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Travelling the Incense Route: From Arabia to the Levant in the Footsteps of the Magi
by:
Barbara Toy
3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings 4. 
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating — 49,879 ratings 
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Grace and Grit: Motorcycle Dispatches from Early Twentieth Century Women Adventurers 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Monkeys on the Road: One family's vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life
by:
Mary Hollendoner
4.59 avg rating — 759 ratings 
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City 3.98 avg rating — 2,302 ratings
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Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
by:
Kate Harris
3.87 avg rating — 5,880 ratings 
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There Is Only One Road and It Goes Everywhere: Journeys to the Land of Heart's Desires (Tramp Lit Series)
by:
Kathleen Phelan
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
by:
Nan Shepherd
4.28 avg rating — 8,432 ratings 
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A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China
by:
Jenny Chio
3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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A Fool on Wheels, Tangier to Baghdad by Land-Rover
by:
Barbara Toy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 34. 
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
by:
Lauret Savoy
4.08 avg rating — 1,224 ratings 36. 
Traveling the Incense Route: From Arabia to the Levant in the Footsteps of the Magi
by:
Barbara Toy
3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings 36. 
Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn
by:
Anne Hillerman
4.26 avg rating — 317 ratings 38. 
Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland
by:
Laura O. Foster
3.93 avg rating — 137 ratings 39. 
Timeless On The Silk Road: An Odyssey From London To Hanoi
by:
Heather Ellis
4.41 avg rating — 137 ratings 39. 
Dogland: A Journey to the Heart of America's Dog Problem
by:
Jacki Skole
4.45 avg rating — 65 ratings 41. 
Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World
by:
Elspeth Beard
4.50 avg rating — 2,643 ratings 41. 
New England's Colonial Inns & Taverns: Centuries of Yankee Fare and Hospitality
by:
Maria Olia
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 43. 
An Anthology of Early British Motorcycle Travel Literature
by:
Tim Fransen
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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No Time To Stop: Through Algeria And Tunisia On A Motor Bicycle
by:
Lady Warren
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
by:
Rebecca Lowe
4.16 avg rating — 675 ratings 49. 
Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
by:
Kathryn Miles
3.90 avg rating — 788 ratings 
52. 
Secret Cleveland: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure
by:
Deb Thompson
3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook: The Least Practical, Most Literary Guide to Cleveland (Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks)
by:
Anne Trubek
4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings 
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South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land
by:
Julia Reed
3.86 avg rating — 503 ratings 58. 
Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains: A Journey across Arunachal Pradesh - India's Forgotten Frontier 4.04 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Footsteps of the Cherokees : A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation
by:
Vicki Rozema
3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings 60. 
Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 126)
by:
Georgine Clarsen
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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20,000 Miles South : A Pan-American Adventure in a seagoing jeep from the arctic circle to tierra del fuego.
by:
Helen Schreider
4.48 avg rating — 33 ratings 62. 
No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands
by:
Judith Matloff
3.86 avg rating — 138 ratings 64. 
Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcycle, 20,000 Miles Across the Americas
by:
Lois Pryce
4.14 avg rating — 912 ratings 64. 
Native American Landmarks and Festivals: A Traveler’s Guide to Indigenous United States and Canada 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Red Tape and White Knuckles: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey Through Africa
by:
Lois Pryce
4.30 avg rating — 561 ratings 66. 
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Jeopardy and a Jeep: Africa Conquered by Two Women Professors
by:
Dorothy Rogers
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 70. 
All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands 4.21 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Drums of Tonkin: An Adventure in Indonesia
by:
Helen Schreider
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Road to Mekong : 4 women | Motorcycle Expedition | 56 days | 17000 kms - Expedition leader’s narrative 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Road to Mekong: Four Women, Six Countries - An Adventure of a Lifetime
by:
Piya Bahadur
4.10 avg rating — 77 ratings 77. 
Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, And The Unearthing Of The World's Oldest Printed Book
by:
Joyce Morgan
3.90 avg rating — 456 ratings 
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The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
by:
Ella Maillart
3.63 avg rating — 295 ratings 
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Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids: A History of One of Florida's Oldest Roadside Attractions
by:
Lu Vickers
4.18 avg rating — 45 ratings 92. 
Backroads of Paradise: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida
by:
Cathy Salustri
3.69 avg rating — 94 ratings 93. 
Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran
by:
Lois Pryce
4.26 avg rating — 859 ratings 
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Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir 3.52 avg rating — 3,164 ratings
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Only in Spain: A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in Love
by:
Nellie Bennett
3.68 avg rating — 663 ratings