About the Author

Lucy McCauley's travel essays have appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times, Harvard Review, Science & Spirit, and Salon.com. She is series editor of Best Women's Travel Writing, and editor of three other Travelers' Tales anthologies - Spain (1995), Women in the Wild (1998), and A Woman's Path (2000), all of which have been reissued in the last few years. In addition, she has written case studies in Latin America for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and now works as a developmental editor for publishers such as Harvard Business School Press.