Find out how the women in Dubrovnik, after enduring bombing, siege and starvation, were able to transmute ashes into a source of dignity and independence — with a little help from 11,640 insect eggs hidden in one courageous woman’s cleavage.
Bali is festivals and floral offerings, ceremonies and spas, the echo of gamelan music floating across rice fields … centuries-old temples, intricately-carved wooden masks, hypnotic dance, batik, magical double-ikat weaving, and Ubud’s Sacred Monkey Forest. View more than 300 photos of Bali’s best sights…
Eve Ensler changed my life. She did it in fifteen minutes, from halfway around the world …
“Nothing in life is more important than sex.” So says Steinhart Aquarium Director Bart Shepherd, and I’m inclined to agree. Shepherd recently announced the opening of a new exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences about sex, mating, and evolution.
Adventurer and environmentalist Roz Savage is the first woman to row across three oceans. Even more impressive, she did it solo, in a 23-foot rowboat, without a support vessel. “I have battled twenty-foot waves, sleep deprivation, and self-doubt, but I have never been happier,” Roz says.
I tracked lemurs in Madagascar — while fighting off stinging caterpillars, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, blood-sucking leeches, spiders the size of my fist, and moths bigger than a hummingbird. Read about it in this new book.
