Disclaimer: When we finished our first draft of The Lost Girls, we realized that in order to print it in a typeface you didn’t need a magnifying glass to read—and make it light enough to carry on a plane without incurring excess baggage fees—we’d probably have to cut things down a little. And so we set out to streamline our tale, a task that required numerous late-night brainstorming sessions over red wine and sushi and a few workdays when we never changed out of our pajamas at all.
And though we’ve stuck to the real story of our adventures as closely and accurately as we can recall (cowriters have a wonderful way of keeping you honest!), we occasionally merged characters, reordered events, and condensed time to keep your eyes from glazing over. Many names of people and places (including the Indian ashram) have been changed and some of the identifying details altered to protect the innocent—and not so innocent—but the characters and stories themselves are entirely authentic. We really did bribe our way across the Cambodian border, really did sleep with cockroaches in Kenya, and really did get on a plane together and embark on a journey around the world. The trip turned out to be the greatest adventure of our lives—and that’s the most important truth of them all.
But now we’ll stop our rambling and let you read about it for yourself.
THE LOST GIRLS. Copyright © 2010 by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett, and Amanda Pressner. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Baggett, Jennifer.
The lost girls: three friends, four continents, one unconventional detour around the world / Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett, and Amanda Pressner.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-168906-2
1. Baggett, Jennifer—Travel. 2. Corbett, Holly C.—Travel. 3. Pressner, Amanda—Travel. 4. Voyages and travels. 5. Backpacking. 6. Women travelers—Biography. 7. Women adventurers—Biography. 8. Young Women—New York (State)—New York—Biography. 9. Friends—New York (State)—New York—Biography. 10. Travelers’ writings, American. I. Title.
G465.B335 2010
910.4'1—dc22
2009054294
EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199347-3
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