Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers
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Whether medieval missionaries or modern mountaineers, butterfly-catchers or courtesans, the woman travellers represented in this delightful collection share one thing in common: they all wrote books of their own. Robinson here presents some three hundred and fifty woman travellers, mostly British or American, and examines the almost one thousand books they produced among them. Spanning sixteen centuries, she reveals a fascinating body of literature,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0192122614
ISBN13:9780192122612
Release Date:May 1990
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.7" x 8.8"
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This fascinating and scholarly book by Jane Robinson covers sixteen centuries of woman travelers and their writing. Bibliographic and biographical information is included for each author. Includes maps, black and white photographs, an index of authors, and a geographical index. 344 pages. If you enjoy travel writing this is an excellent resource to find many of the books you may have missed.
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