The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett
Book Description
The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World. by Jennifer Baggett and Holly C. Corbett and Amanda Pressner
The Lost Girls is a group travel memoir that is more than just a retelling of an around the world trip. It goes deeper into the travel experience and illustrates just how possible it is for young professionals to take an amazing journey to see the world. These three young women left the comfort of their Manhattan lifestyle to explore the world with no real agenda except to experience life. They entertain readers with their various exotic adventures, share a few tips on how to accomplish a year of travel, and give a glimpse into the ups and downs of three different personalities traveling together for an entire year.
After a thrilling trip to South America, Jen, Holly, and Amanda, three Manhattanites in their mid-twenties, decide to climb off the career ladder for a year to travel the world. Inspired by The Flame Trees of Thika, Jen has always longed to see Kenya, while Holly wants to study yoga in an ashram in India. Amanda has dreams of pursuing a career as a freelance travel writer, but when she takes time out from their adventures to work on articles, it grates on the nerves of Jen, who is hoping to truly immerse herself in their surroundings. Though the three encounter snafus on the way Holly initially finds the rigors of the ashram disheartening, the girls find themselves trapped in a car with a frightening taxi driver in Vietnam there are many rewards on the journey, most notably when the three friends organize a group of Kenyan girls to perform a play about an influential Kenyan woman. For those with similar wanderlust, Jen, Holly and Amanda’s lively accounts make for the ideal armchair journey.
