Title: Not as good as Traveler's Tales: A Woman's World
Review: I was quite disappointed with this book, after only reading a small handful of the essays. I found what essays I read to be overly introverted and psychological in tone. None seemed to deal with actual travel activities -- what the women saw, how they experienced a different culture, etc.Not that the writing itself is particularly bad; rather, I got the sense that the foreign country was mere background for the writer's angst. A closer look at the subtitle of the book corroborates my assertion: "writing by American women abroad". So, sit in France and write about your loneliness or personal obsessions -- and then it can be included in a so-called travelogue like this one.If you're hankering for the road, you'd be better off reading Marybeth Bond's "Traveler's Tales: A Woman's World". Or even Thalia Zepatos' "A Journey of One's Own", which includes her own travel essays.
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