Wanderlust - Danielle Steel

At twenty-one Annabelle Driscoll was the acknowledged beauty, but it was her sister Audrey - four years older - who had the spine and spirit. She had talent as a photographer; she had the restless urge of a born wanderer.

Inevitably it was Annabelle who was the first to marry, leaving Audrey to wonder if life was passing her by. Sometimes she would dream of a man like her father, someone with adventure in his soul and exotic places in his heart.

The men she met in California were dull. Even in New York they failed to interest her. Only when she sailed for Europe aboard the Mauretania did she mingle with others more like her. Only when she boarded the Orient Express did she realise she was beginning a journey that would take her farther than she had ever dreamed possible: deep into China, Tibet, the magic of the Orient and later North Africa and Europe. Her life would never be the same again.