BARR, PAT

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

London, Penguin. 1986. (ISBN: 0140079211) Pbk. Book, 347p plates bibliography index. Very Good.

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Book number: 038384

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0140079211 Isabella Bird Travels

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

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 & Tear.

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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. Hardcover. Book, Two rather feckless English women went travelling in Spain just prior to the Civil war and were apparently y quite oblivious to any of the social and political tensions. Descriptions of places and of the various maids, shop girls and other women they encpuntered. 232p. illus. index. Cover a little worn/shabby and some light foxing to ffep. Good>Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 038378

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: Spain Women Travellers Spain / Spanish

ROBINSON, JANE

Parrot Pie for Breakfast : An Anthology of Women Pioneers

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1995, 0-19-282489-9. (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. Fine.

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Book number: 038402

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0192880209 Women Travel Explorers Pioneers

ROBINSON, JANE

Unsuitable for Ladies : An Anthology of Women Travellers

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1995. (ISBN: 0192824899) Soft cover. Book, "Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and usually overcome by these same women. Jane Robinson's first book,Wayward Women, was a guide to women travellers and their writing, and having read over a thousand of their books she is uniquely qualified to compile this anthology. Life is never dull for her intrepid women, whether diving to the bed of the Timor Sea or reaching the summit of Annapurna. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, there are tales of adventure, derring-do, and great danger. There are also moving accounts of unimaginable hardship, including caring for a family in an ammunition cart during the siege of Delhi and a journey through Tibet that leaves its author childless and widowed.There is no such thing as a typical woman traveller-and there never has been-as this exhilarating anthology shows on a journey of its own through sixteen centuries of travel writing, aboard almost anything from a Bugatti to a Bath chair. You are taken as far afield as it is possible to go, in the company of some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet. " 471p. bibliography.index. Very Good.

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Book number: 038401

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0192824899 Women Travel Explorers

VENNING, ANNABEL

Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters

London, Headline. 2005, 1st UK Ed.. (ISBN: 0755312589) Hardcover. Book. stories of the women who followed their men around the world, sometimes onto the battlefield itself, and went on to become brave, headstrong and positively warlike. Army wives have 'followed the drum' to the cholera-ridden valleys of the Crimea, the sweltering plains of the Indian Mutiny, the treacherous Burmese jungle and into the last Gulf War. Drawing on letters, journals and interviews, FOLLOWING THE DRUM pays tribute to the remarkable women who triumphed amidst the blood, battles and brawls. As New/As New.

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Book number: 038405

Catalogue: Women Explorers & Travellers

Keywords: 0755312589 Women Military History Military History