Linda Ballou is an accomplished travel and adventure writer - about whom world-wide explorer, Jim Dorsey, says: "Ballou takes us out of their armchair into the world as few travel writers can. Her eye for detail, combined with intimate knowledge of her surroundings, sets Ms. Ballou heads above most of the travel writing pack. In this age when everyone with a back pack proclaims him or herself a travel writer, it takes books like Linda's- to re-define the genre. This is just plain, great, travel writing.”