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UNSUITABLE FOR LADIES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN TRAVELLERS Jane Robinson 1994 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine
By Robinson, Jane
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New York, Oxford, 1994, 1st edition. 471 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine. 

The most complete anthology of women climbers, explorers and travellers ever assembled. Excerpts from the works of 190 female writers give an excellent overview of these intrepid women. Real ladies do not travel--or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels that notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travelers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and overcome by these women.

Life is never dull for Jane Robinson's intrepid women. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, this book includes tales of derring-do and great danger. It also tells tales 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 traveler--and there never has been--as this exhilarating anthology shows on a journey of its own through sixteen centuries of travel writing. So get ready for adventure and excitement with some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet. 


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