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A lively, amusing retelling of the adventures of seven unique women, who fearlessly travelled to remote corners of the earth: Isabella Bird Bishop, Marianne North (a botanist who painted in Brazil), Fanny Bullock Workman (photographer and mountaineer), Annie Taylor, May French Sheldon, Kate Marsden, and Mary Kingsley.
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When Dorothy Middleton published her book about Victorian women travellers, some twenty years ago, she started an unstoppable avalanche of interest in women travellers.Her meticulously researched work covers those women who dutifully accompanied their husbands on overseas missions,who went on missions themselves ( bringing Jesus to the unsuspecting)or who, in their own right, bounded out into the world in order to discover what was on offer. Read here about Alexandra David-Neel who, upon getting married, abandoned her husband for the snowy wastes of Tibet where she spent fourteen years getting herself into the right franme of mind to enter the Forbidden City - disguised as an old woman with grease rubbed into her plaits, accompanied by the young lama who she subsequently adopted and brought back with her to France. Follow the mountaineous route taken by Isabella Bird Bishop as she rides through the Rockies where she falls in love with wild,one-eyed Mountain Jim. These are only two of many women who will demand your full attention once you pick up this book. And the sooner you pick it up, the sooner you yourself will want to hit the road.
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5 Jan 2011
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Purchased this as a gift for my lady who rarely put it down. Full of excellent real life adventure stories of ladies who were largely unbound by the social restraints of the era. Well written and compiled.
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