Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
 

Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

by Holly Morris

After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited producer-mother, Jeannie, and a whole lot of chutzpah, Morris tracked down artists,... (more)

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Overview: Amazon Reviews

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  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-07-27
One of my favorite reads this year. Holly is amazing and she's doing incredible things! Read this if you want to see some good happening in the world and people taking a chance and a risk for things they believe in. This book is a must read!
Adventure Divas
  • Rated 3 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2006-08-13
Morris launched the television show Adventure Divas to showcase women around the world--activists, artists and politicians--creating social and political change. In its companion book, readers hear how the crew filmed in Cuba, New Zealand, India and Iran for PBS (now on DVD). Like its short, playful name, the project invokes a broad audience and indicates the challenge of broadcasting hopefulness alongside complex global concerns. Unfortunately, Morris's book often breezes through women's stories and could minimize the focus on her own divadom. Nonetheless, interesting stories abound. Adventure Divas' mission of bringing women to the forefront through media delivers inspiration. Most importantly, it provides a model for future media divas to build on
Adventure Divas
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2006-07-03
I love it! Love it! Holly writes with pure honesty, vision, openness and salted with tongue-in-check humor. For any women who has ever dreamed of travel, new adventures and meeting the unmeetable, this is the book to read. It left me wanting more!! By the way, Im Debbi, Roberts wife.
Awakening the nomad
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2006-06-25
As an aspiring travel writer who has been relatively stationary for awhile now, I found it hard to put down Holly's book. Her writing brought life to lands and people I've only dreamt about seeing/meeting someday. What I love is how her sense of self came through--she is honest in her pursuits. The book is a perfect combination of her own thoughts, well-chosen dialogue, and historical references.
Her words and stories awoke the nomad inside me that has been under forced dormancy for too long. She made me want to grab my dusty backpack and hit the road once again to continue making my own discoveries.
I look forward to reading about all the new adventures someday soon!
Morris in Theroux League
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2006-05-20
Holly Morris did an incredible job with this book. As a traveller who has been to 150 countries, I have digested a lot of travel writing. Holly's style is fresh, inciteful, exciting, real. She really puts you in the scene, and those scenes are often fascinating. I like her writing as much as Paul Theroux and hope she not only continues her world adventures, but also shares them with us.

Bill Kizorek, CEO, Two Parrot Productions
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