Author: ALLEN, ALEXANDRA
Title: Travelling Ladies
Description: 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.

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


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