In case any readers have been living in a cave without Internet access, here's our official announcement about one of the big movies of the summer:
Eat Pray Love, based on the memoir Eat, Pray, Love (Hollywood apparently doesn't like commas) by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin, $15, 9780143038412/0143038419), opens this coming Friday, August 13. Julia Roberts stars as Gilbert, who, after her marriage fell apart, traveled to Italy, India and Bali and slowly put her life back together.
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In honor of the movie, Globe Corner Bookstores, Cambridge, Mass., offered a list of travelogues written by "incredible women who traveled around the world--and then wrote about it":
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell
Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley
Out of Africa and Shadow on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Travelers' Tales the Best Women's Travel Writing 2010
Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley
Out of Africa and Shadow on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Travelers' Tales the Best Women's Travel Writing 2010
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In dishonor of the movie, there's Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Vegas, and Thailand by Andrew Gottlieb (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic), a parody of Eat, Pray, Love from the point of view of a jilted husband. The book has been optioned by Warner Bros. as Dumped, starring Steve Carell.