AITKEN, MARIA

A Girdle Round the Earth

London, Constable. 1987, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0094669309) Hardcover. Book, ". about the urge in women to travel and explore and to risk their lives in foreign parts. I pursuit of their own goals they happily ignored convention; for all of them "abroard" was wher the existed most fully"206p. illus bibliography.index women. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 038570

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0094669309 Travel Women Travellers

ALLEN, ALEXANDRA

Travelling Ladies

London, Jupiter Books. 1980, 1st UK Ed. (ISBN: 0906379164) Hardcover. Book, Alexandra Allen traces the careers of eight remarkable ladies who flouted convention in search of knowledge, spiritual fulfillment or romance: May French Sheldon trekked across Africa, Kate Marsden visited isolated leper colonies in Siberia, Alexandra David-Neel spent fourteen years in Tibet, Daisy Bates spent most of her life in the study and care of the Australian aborigines . Jane Digby el Mesrab traveleld across Europe in search of love.before she found happiness as the wife of a Bedouin sheikhin Damascus" Mildred Cable and Evangeline and Francesca French went as missionaries across the Gobi Desert, Isabella Bishop travelled the world from the Rockies to Asia and Marianne North painted tropical flowers wherever she went (on display at Kew) 266p plates [Toronto, ON, Canada]. As New/As New.

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Book number: 038633

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0906379164 Women Explorers Travellers May French Sheldon, Kate Marsden,Alexandra David-Neel Daisy Bates, Jane Digby El Mesrab, Mildred Cable, Evangeline and Francesca French, Isabella Bird Bishop, Marianne North

BARR, PAT

A Curious Life for a Lady : The Story of Isabella Bird

London, Penguin. 1986, Reprint. (ISBN: 0140079211) Trade Paperback. Book, The travel biography of Isabella Bird.. who spent much of her first forty years of her life as a pious Victorian parson's daughter studying hymns. It was therefore surprising that she then burst out of such homely confinements to become a tireless international traveller, usually alone. Most of her travels were to parts of Asia where European influence was not well established. l347p plates bibliography index. Near Fine.

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Book number: 038384

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0140079211 Isabella Bird Travels Women

BIRD,ISABELLA

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

London, Century. 1983, Facsimile Reprint. (ISBN: 0860682668) Trade Paperback. Book, Reprinted edition ( introduced by Robin Hanbury-Tennison) of the adventures of an intrepid Victorian Lady in the Far East st in 1879. (First Published John Murray.1883) Trade Pbk 384p. maps.plates.index. Very Good.

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Book number: 038453

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0860682668 Malaysia Asia Malay States Malacca Singapore Selangor

BIRD,ISABELLA

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

University of Oklahoma Press. 1988, Reprint. (ISBN: 0806113286) Trade Paperback. Ill.: Map and index by Nancy G, Gambrill. Book, In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume .. tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic reprint of a account of a truly astounding journey with an introduction by Daniel J.Boorstin.Map and index by Nancy G, Gambrill.256p.illus. map. liu. As New.

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Book number: 046366

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Keywords: 0806113286 Map and Index By Nancy G, Gambrillamerica Description & Travel Colorado American West Rockies Women Travellers United States

BLANCH, LESLEY

Journey Into the Mind's Eye : Fragments of an Autobiography

New York, Fontana / Collins. 1971, 1st US Edition. Pbk. Book, "If you are interested in Russia - if you are interested in love - if indeed you are interested in humanity, then this haunting book is one to read and re-read." 416p. Near Fine.

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Book number: 039498

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: Russia Travel Women Biography Biographies - Women

BLANCH, LESLEY

Journey Into the Mind's Eye : Fragments of an Autobiography

New York, Atheneum. 1968, 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Book, "If you are interested in Russia - if you are interested in love - if indeed you are interested in humanity, then this haunting book is one to read and re-read." 376p. name on ffep else fine. Near Fine/Near Fine - Price Clipped.

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Book number: 038461

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: Russia Women Travellers Biographies - Women

BLANCH, LESLEY

Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star : Travels & Travellers

London, John Murray. 1963, Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library, Four adventurous women who found love and romance in the Levant : Isabel Burton, Jane Digby (who amongst other romantic attachments married Count Spyridon Theotocky, and co-habited with Christdoulos Hadji-Petros in Othonian Greece c. 1840-1850) Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Isabelle Eberhardt. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 038470

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: Travel Books Women Isabel Burton, Jane Digby, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Isabelle Eberhardt. Greece 1840-1900 Digby, Jane

KEAY, JULIA

With Passport and Parasol : The Adventures Of Seven Victorian Ladies

London, BBC Books. 1989, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0563206942) Hardcover. Ex-Library, The adventures of seven Victorian ladies and their travels : Emily Eden, Anna Leonowens, Amelia Edwards, Kate Marsden, Gertrude Bell, Daisy Bates, Alexandra David-Neel. "Their very individuality serves to illustrate the remarkable diversity of "lady travellers" as a breed." Based on a series of broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 160p. plates bibliography.Vintage copy neat and complete but marred with Library stamps. Good>Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 046365

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0563206942 Description & Travel Women Travellers Emily Eden, Anna Leonowens,Amelia Edwards, Kate Marsden,Gertrude Bell,Daisy Bates,Alexandra David-Neel

KOBAK,ANNETTE

Isabelle : The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt

New York, A.A.Knopf. 1988, 1st.US Edition. (ISBN: 0394576918) Hardcover. Book, Amazing life of a young Russian girl who disguised herslf as a boy and went to live among the desert Arabs of North Africa. 258p. illus bibliography.index. As New/As New.

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Book number: 038390

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0394576918 Isabelle Eberhardt North Africa Algeria North Africa Zzqatarnafrica

LONGWORTH, PHILIP

The Making of Eastern Europe

Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. 1992, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0333537696) Hardcover. Book, Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 038634

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Keywords: 0333537696 Hiostory Balkans Eastern Europe

MILLER, LUREE

On top of the world: five women explorers in Tibet

Seattle, The Mountaineers. 1984, First Thus. (ISBN: 0898860970) Soft cover. Book, Describes the adventures of five intrepid explorers who ventured inti Tibet in the late 19th century : Fannie Bullock Workman, Nina Mazuchelli, Annie Taylor, Isabella Bird Bishop, Alexandra David-Neel.222p. illus, maps, bibliography.index. Fine.

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Book number: 038394

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0898860970 Tibet Exploration Travel Fannie Bullock Workman Nina Mazuchelli Annie Taylor Isabella Bird Bishop Alexandra David-Neel Tibet

MOTLEY, MARY PENICK

Home to Numidia

London, Longmans. 1964, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, A childhood in Algeria with her mother -the sculptress Clare Sheridan gave the author a unique experience of the place and its people - this book is " the record of a troubled friendship with a country she still loves - an unbiased portrait of Algeria and its people, her knowledge of whom must be unique" 227p. Near Fine/Very Good, Slight Chips & Tears.

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Book number: 038396

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: Algeria Numidia North Africa North Africa Zzqatarnafrica

FORD-INMAN, NANCY & NUTTING, MARION L

Spinsters in Spain

London, Heath Cranton. 1938, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library, The travels if two English women in Soain, written in the form of letters written to a Godmother with descriptions of places they visited and of the various maids, shop girls and other Spanish women they encountered This was just prior to the outbreak of the Civil war and they seemed rather oblivious to any of the social and political tensions around them. 232p.+ plates. index.Text neat and complete, Cover a little worn, some light foxing . Good>Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 045949

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: Spain Description and Travel Spanish Women Travellets Spain / Spanish

ROBINSON, JANE

Parrot Pie for Breakfast : An Anthology of Women Pioneers

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1995, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0192880209) French Wraps. Book, "There is nothing quite like parrot pie for breakfast. First one must catch one's parrot, of course, and build the hearth to bake it, but that is all in a days work for the woman pioneer. This riveting anthology tells the story of over 100 such women spanning four centuries, from the lowliest kitchen skivvy to ambassadors" wives: emigrants who settled the wildernesses of the world in search of new and better lives. Many were lured abroad by the promise of work or fortune; some went because imperial duty called, while for others it was a most unfeminine lust for adventure that drew them away. But all faced challenges in their homes from home that were to test to the limit their spirits, their resourcefulness, even their survival." 177p. As New.

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Book number: 038402

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0192880209 Women Travel Explorers Pioneers