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Books make terrific traveling companions, even for the armchair traveler. So go ahead girls, quench your wanderlust with these three intrepid tales told by traveling women.

Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman: A must read for any women whose contemplated running away from home! Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of divorce, Rita left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of connecting with people in cultures all over the world. In 1986 she sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces. She has observed orangutans in the rain forest of Borneo, visited trance healers and dens of black magic, and cooked with women on fires all over the world. Rita’s example encourages us all to dust off our dreams and rediscover the joy, the exuberance, and the hidden spirit that so many of us bury when we become adults.

Adventure Divas: Searching for a New Kind of Heroine by Holly Morris: Beware. The most common side effect of reading this book is extreme wanderlust! A certified Adventure Diva herself, in this book, Holly Morris brings to life the remarkable people and places she’s encountered on the road as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia. Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling details of place, Adventure Divas, is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity, ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our own adventures.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert: This is a story certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.

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