Dimensions
140 x 230 x 19mm
This book explores the adventures of both celebrated and unknown women travellers who endured Russian bed bugs, unveiled the secrets of Turkish harems, endured Africa's scorching heat, destructive thunderstorms and plagues of scorpions, or traversed aging Tibetan rivers, among other feats.
In the 17th century, Lady Ann Fanshaw disguised herself as a cabin boy, ready to fearlessly confront a band of pirates off the coast of Spain. More than two centuries later, Isabella Bird, severely affected by bad luck, jolted her way on horseback along muddy paths to damp, squalid travellers' huts in Japan, and in between, Hester Stanhope disdained convention and personal safety by riding openly through the Syrian desert to the ruins of Palmyra.
Filled with fascinating portraits of these and many other women travellers, and with images of the scenes they encountered on their journeys, this book is a time traveller's delight, a look back at women who knew their place was truly not in the home.
