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The Lost Girls:Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World
by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett & Amanda Pressner
Three friends at a crossroads in their twenties make a pact to quit their high pressure New York media jobs; leave their friends, boyfriends and everything familiar behind; and embark on a year-long backpacking adventure around the world.
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About the Book
With their 28th birthdays looming, Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett, and Amanda Pressner are quickly rocketing towards management positions, mortgages, and marriages . . . but all share a similar fear: Is this what they want, or what they think they should want? Feeling in serious need of perspective, they decide to leave it all behind, quit their jobs, and begin an epic search for meaning and enlightenment. Traveling 60,000 miles around the world, from the mountains and jungles of South America to the beaches of Australia, passing through Kenya, India, Southeast Asia, and New Zealand along the way, the trio will not only find themselves, but a lifelong friendship. Ultimately, theirs is a story of true sisterhood-a bond forged by exotic illnesses, cockroach-infested trains, Maasai tribal initiation ceremonies, long distance break-ups, whirlwind romances, and everything in the world in between.
This exciting and inspiring memoir will speak to anyone who has ever felt a desire to stretch their wings, break out of their comfort zone, and discover the world.
Praise for The Lost Girls
“Warning. This book comes with potentially serious side effects, including chronic wanderlust; severe allergic reactions to the daily grind; and an incurable desire to toss that Blackberry down a sewer drain, grab a backpack, and embrace this amazing planet of ours. Three cheers to the Lost Girls for showing us, with good humor and graceful prose, the beauty and importance of leading life astray.”
– Franz Wisner, New York Times Bestselling author of Honeymoon with My Brother