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I have a love-hate relationship with travel writing. Either it's so detailed about the landscape that I'm not interested because the details take out the human experience - or it's so personal that the writer forgets to mention the details of the landscape and the events of traveling. Few writers have been able to satisfy my standards for travel writing, which is why I only read it when my book club ladies tell me to.
This book was very well-balanced. As a mid-30s woman, I'm beyond all the questi ...more
This book was very well-balanced. As a mid-30s woman, I'm beyond all the questi ...more
This is a "privileged white girls visit developing countries and discover how privileged they really are" type memoir, but it is a good read. I most enjoyed the descriptions of the places they visited and the lives of the people there. I also appreciate that the authors did visit almost solely developing countries and that they really made an effort to find organizations and businesses that would benefit locals. Also they also engaged in typical hostel partying along the way, they felt like thou
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You have to admire what these girls did. In their mid-twenties and mired in the fast-paced world of magazine publication in New York, they decided it was now or never. It was time to explore the world.
Over the course of a year, their trip took them to South America, Kenya, several countries in SE Asia, Bali, New Zealand, and Australia. And the book covers it all, some in more detail than others. That’s actually one of my quibbles with the book. So much time is spent on that first month or so in ...more
Over the course of a year, their trip took them to South America, Kenya, several countries in SE Asia, Bali, New Zealand, and Australia. And the book covers it all, some in more detail than others. That’s actually one of my quibbles with the book. So much time is spent on that first month or so in ...more
This book is the armchair traveler's dream -to just drop everything and explore the world. For those who are in their mid twenties and trying to figure out what to do with the rest of their lives, the plight of the Lost Girls is all too familiar. Instead of struggling with their life decisions in their dead-end jobs and relationships, The Lost Girls take off and try to discover the answers to their lives out in the world. A word of warning -if you already have the travel bug, this book will inte
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Everyone in this book irritated me at one point or another, but mostly it made me want to run off to a foreign country.
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