A new compilation of classic travel writing spans the globe,
celebrating the pioneering spirit of women throughout the ages
Spanning three centuries, this assortment of writings reveals a rich
treasure trove of anecdotes and adventures from incredible women worth
celebrating and remembering. Learn how Celia Fiennes traveled the length
and breadth of England, riding side-saddle, at the dawn of the 18th
century; Austrian Ida Pfeiffer took multiple journeys around the world
in the 1840s; and Dora d'Istria, a mountain-climbing duchess and
polymath, traveled widely through Europe--her account of ascending Mont
Blanc in 1860 is perhaps the most striking. Isabel Burton's adventures
were as a government employee's wife stationed all over the world.
Isabella Bird traveled around the world on doctor's orders--until
finally retraining as a doctor and missionary in her 60s for a trip to
India and its surrounding countries. Readers will find out what
motivated Marie Kingsley to travel solo to the deepest parts of West
Africa and how her journeys shaped not only her own way of thinking but
that of Europe as whole. They will learn how May Kellogg Sullivan
undertook her journey to Alaska and the Yukon to seek her fortune in the
gold-mining world. They'll be astonished to read how on a trip to Burma,
India, Ceylon, and Indonesia with her husband, Fanny Bullock Workman
cycled 15,000 miles (as a welcome break from glacier-climbing in the
Himalayas); how investigative journalist Nellie Bly took up Jules
Verne's gauntlet to travel around the world in 80 days; and how Ella
Sykes once rode on horseback from the Caspian Sea all the way to India.
