In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, thirty celebrated and emerging writers invite you to ride shotgun as they travel the globe to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The essays are as diverse as the destinations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling that will make you laugh, weep, wish you were there, or thank your lucky stars you weren’t. The Best Women’s Travel Writing speaks to the reasons why we travel—and how travel changes our lives.

In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, you’ll:

Study the ancient art of belly dancing in Egypt

Go day-drinking with a sea captain in Croatia

Scuba dive through an underground cave in Mexico

Run from massive exploding balloons in Burma

Embed with the military in Afghanistan

Experience a different kind of time in Argentina

Go dogsledding in Finland

Confront heartache, pain, and a deadly creature in Indonesia

Negotiate with smugglers in Mongolia

Marry a stranger at Burning Man

... and much, much more.