After a day spent exploring hazardous roads and engaging in conversation with local Pakistani tribesmen, Jean Juba finds herself standing in a hotel reception hall...surrounded by Taliban. Learn how she got there-and how she escaped-in Juba's heart-pounding new memoir, Travels Unveiled. As the author traces her life over the course of thirty years, she reflects on the sometimes painfully ironic ways in which personal hopes and dreams can manifest. From her time in construction, where her presence is continually ostracized and threatened by her coworkers, to her role in the US Department of State Foreign Service, Juba continuously rises to the challenge as one of the only females in male-dominated industries. Her inspiring journey, which is filled with gender and cross-cultural issues at every crossroad, takes readers through a bombed US embassy in Nairobi, introduces them to tribal kings and princes, and ultimately reminds audiences of the hope that endures in even the most barren of places.