The lost girls : three friends, four continents, one unconventional detour around the world / Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett, Amanda Pressner.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 542 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0061689068
- 9780061689062
- Three friends, four continents, one unconventional detour around the world
- Baggett, Jennifer -- Travel
- Corbett, Holly C. -- Travel
- Pressner, Amanda -- Travel
- Backpacking
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Travelers' writings, American
- Voyages and travels
- Women adventurers -- Biography
- Women travelers -- Biography
- Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 910.41 B144 | Available | 33111005979212 | ||||
Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 910.41 B144 | Available | 33111006400127 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Brave, funny, and deeply moving."
-- Cathy Alter, author of Up for Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, and Starting Over
"Three cheers to The Lost Girls for showing us, with good humor and graceful prose, the beauty and importance of leading life astray."
-- Franz Wisner, New York Times Bestselling author of Honeymoon with My Brother
Three friends, each on the brink of a quarter-life crisis, make a pact to quit their high pressure New York City media jobs and leave behind their friends, boyfriends, and everything familiar to embark on a year-long backpacking adventure around the world in The Lost Girls.
Prologue: Kenya (October) -- Jen, Argentina/Brazil (January, one year earlier) -- Amanda, New York City (May, One Year Earlier) -- Holly, New York City (January-March) -- Jen, Peru (June) -- Holly, Peru (July) -- Jen, Peru (July) -- Amanda, Peru (August) -- Jen, Brazil (August) -- Holly, Brazil (August) -- Amanda, New York City (August-September) -- Jen, Kenya (September) -- Amanda, Kenya (September) -- Holly, Kenya (September) -- Jen, Kenya (October) -- Holly, India (October) -- Jen, India (November) -- Holly, India (November) -- Amanda, Goa, India (November) -- Jen, Vientiane, Laos (December) -- Amanda, Laos (December) -- Holly, India (November-December) -- Amanda, Thailand (December) -- Holly, Boston/Cambodia (January) -- Jen, Vietnam (January) -- Amanda, Vietnam (January) -- Jen, Thailand (February) -- Holly, Bali (March) -- Amanda, New Zealand (March) --Jen, New Zealand (March-April) -- Amanda, Australia (April) -- Holly, Australia (April) -- Jen, Australia (May) -- Holly, Australia (May) -- Epilogue: Panama (August, two years later)