Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure

by Elain Lee

Go The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure, edited by Elaine Lee, is the first travel book by and for African American women. Its an anthology of 52 riveting traveler's tales by writers such as Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, Alice Walker and Pearl Cleage.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1997

About the author

Elaine Lee is an avid world traveler, travel writer and media maven. She is the author/editor of "Go Girl: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure" as well as a freelance travel writer who has contributed to the numerous national and local magazines, newspapers and webzines. Her travel stories generally address subjects such as African American travel trends, adventure, women’s travel issues, spirituality, solo travel, health, budget travel and travel planning. She has also contributed stories to five anthologies and two books.

She has been featured on popular national as well as local radio and television shows including appearances on the Travel Channel and Savvy Traveler. The Bay Area's first travel radio show was developed by Elaine and travel writing colleague, Pamela Michaels in 1999 for Bay Area/Northern California station, KPFA-FM. She served as co-host from its inception through 2003 and continues to appear as a regular guest.

Her website, Ugogurl.com, provides a medium to share her travel writing as well as that of other travelers and travel writers. She conceptualized, created and helps maintains the site, which averages 8,000 hits per month.

Coordinating and/or conducting seminars on travel writing and international travel are a passion of hers.

Elaine Lee is an attorney practicing in the Bay Area, specializing in estate planning, probate and real estate development. To learn more about her practice, visit her companion website at www.elaineleeattorney.com.

She is an internationalist who has completed two solo trips around the world, 1992 and 2004, and continues to travel regularly. She has visited 51 countries. She is an avid long distance swimmer, bibliophile, salsa dancer, skier, amateur astronomer, whitewater rafter, sailor, cyclist, culinary wizard and she maintains a personal yoga and meditation practice. She is a regular volunteer at Alameda County Bar Association/Charles Houston Bar Association's low income legal clinic and the Berkeley Animal Shelter.

Reviews

[Labeebah Hasan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Go Girl! calls to me. As a black woman and a traveler, it was awesome and inspiring to read the recollections and essays about black women's adventures abroad. Too often, I think, black women are afraid to step away from the known. We don't see too many African American women travelling out in the world, sot to read a whole book about them was great! It brought back memories of alot of my own experiences and highlighted the invaluable experience that travel provides. It helps us to find ourselves, understand ourselves, and (hopefully) to gain an awareness and tolerance for what is different.

[abl.andreea]

It’s a lovely book, printed in ‘97. For those who love reading about travelling, this is a nice read. It goes in detail, so I would suggest everyone to first travel to all those places and then read this book as a revival of memories (if possible). It was interesting to see how countries and cities were at that time from a traveler and black woman’s perspective. A unique book in that sense.