| | Introduction | |
| | from Embassy to Constantinople / Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) | 3 |
| | from Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark / Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) | 8 |
| | from Peregrinations of a Pariah / Flora Tristan (1803-1844) | 14 |
| | from Domestic Manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope (1780-1863) | 20 |
| | from Life in Prairie Land / Eliza Farnham (1815-1864) | 29 |
| | from Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites / Amelia Edwards (1831-1892) | 36 |
| | from Through Algeria / Mabel Sharman Crawford (ca. 1830-1860) | 42 |
| | from Journal of a Lady's Travels Round the World / Mrs. F. D. Bridges (ca. 1840-?) | 47 |
| | from Travels in West Africa / Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) | 57 |
| | from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird )1831-1904) | 69 |
| | from The Passionate Nomad / Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) | 75 |
| | from Station Life in New Zealand / Mary Anne Barker (1931-1911) | 79 |
| | from A Girl's Ride in Iceland / Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (ca. 1860-1940) | 89 |
| | from The English Governess at the Siamese Court / Anna Leonowens (1834-1914) | 95 |
| | from Love Among the Butterflies / Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940) | 107 |
| | from The Desert and the Sown / Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) | 118 |
| | from On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers / Kate Marsden (1859-1931) | 122 |
| | from In Morocco / Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | 128 |
| | from Willa Cather in Europe / Willa Cather (1876-1947) | 135 |
| | from Passenger to Teheran / Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) | 140 |
| | from My Journey to Lhasa / Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969) | 144 |
| | from Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) | 152 |
| | from Sister of the Road / Box-Car Bertha (ca 1900-?) | 158 |
| | from Farewell Spain / Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) | 166 |
| | Nine Pounds of Luggage / Maud Parrish (1878-1976) | 173 |
| | from Speak to the Earth: Wanderings and Reflections among Elephants and Mountains / Vivienne de Watteville (1900-1957) | 181 |
| | from Winter in Arabia / Freya Stark (1893-1993) | 189 |
| | from Black Lamb and Grey Falcon / Rebecca West (1892-1983) | 195 |
| | from Klee Wyck / Emily Carr (1871-1945) | 202 |
| | from The Gobi Desert / Mildred Cable (1878-1952), Francesca French (1871-1960) | 212 |
| | from West with the Night / Beryl Markham (1902-1986) | 231 |
| | from The Cruel Way / Ella Maillart (1903- ) | 243 |
| | from The Fabled Shore / Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) | 250 |
| | from Stones of Florence / Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) | 260 |
| | from A Way of Seeing / Margaret Mead (1901-1978) | 271 |
| | from Times and Places / Emily Hahn (1905- ) | 278 |
| | from Long Ago in France / M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992) | 293 |
| | from Tamrart: Thirteen Days in the Sahara / Eleanor Clark (1913- ) | 301 |
| | from Muddling Through in Madagascar / Dervla Murphy (1931- ) | 315 |
| | from Italian Days / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934- ) | 329 |
| | from Turkish Reflections / Mary Lee Settle (1918- ) | 336 |
| | from The White Album / Joan Didion (1934- ) | 341 |
| | from Through Persia in Disguise / Sarah Hobson (1947- ) | 350 |
| | from Wall-to-Wall / Mary Morris (1947- ) | 366 |
| | from Travels with Fortune: An African Adventure / Christina Dodwell (1951- ) | 374 |
| | from Russian Journal / Andrea Lee (1953- ) | 390 |
| | from The Demon Lover / Robin Morgan (1941- ) | 401 |
| | from Season of Stones / Helen Winternitz (1951- ) | 403 |
| | from Noman's Land / Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987) | 411 |
| | from Teaching a Stone to Talk / Annie Dillard (1945- ) | 417 |
| | from The Road Through Miyama / Leila Philip (1962- ) | 423 |
| | from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird (1831-1904) | 431 |
