Maiden voyages : writings of women travelers / edited and with an introduction by Mary Morris in collaboration with Larry O'Connor.
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Morris, Mary, 1947- (redaktör/utgivare, förord)
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O'Connor, Larry, 1955- (redaktör/utgivare)
- ISBN 0679740309
- 1st ed.
- New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
- Engelska xxii, 438 p.
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Serie: Vintage departures.
- Relaterad länk:
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http://www.gbv.de/dm... (Inhaltsverzeichnis)
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Excerpts from: Embassy to Constantinople / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Peregrinations of a pariah / Flora Tristan -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Life in prairie land / Eliza Farnham -- Untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys: a midsummer's ramble in the Dolomites / Amelia Edwards -- Through Algeria / Mabel Sharman Crawford -- Journal of a lady's travels 'round the world / Mrs. F.D. Bridges -- Travels in West Africa / Mary Kingsley -- A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird -- The passionate nomad / Isabelle Eberhardt -- Station life in New Zealand / Lady Mary Anne Barker -- A girl's ride in Iceland / Ethel B. Tweedie -- English governess at the Siamese court / Anna Leonowens -- Love among the butterflies / Margaret Fountaine --.
- Desert and the sown / Gertrude Bell -- On sledge and horseback to outcast Siberian lepers / Kate Marsden -- In Morocco / Edith Wharton -- Willa Cather in Europe / W. Cather -- Passenger to Teheran / Vita Sackville West -- My journey to Lhasa / Alexandra David-Neel -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- Sister of the road / Box-car Bertha -- Farewell Spain / Kate O'Brien -- Nine pounds of luggage / Maud Parrish -- Speak to the earth: Wanderings and reflections among elephants and mountains / Vivienne de Watteville -- Winter in Arabia / Freya Stark -- Black lamb and grey falcon / Rebecca West -- Klee Wyck / Emily Carr -- Gobi desert / Mildred Cable -- West with the night / Beryl Markham -- The cruel way / Ella Millart -- The fabled shore / Rose Macaulay -- Stones of Florence / Mary McCarthy -- A way of seeing / Margaret Meade --.
- Times and places / Emily Hahn -- Long ago in France / M.F.K. Foster -- Tamrart: thirteen days in the Sahara / Eleanor Clark -- Muddling through in Madagascar / Dervla Murphy -- Turkish reflections / Mary Lee Settle -- White album / Joan Didion -- Through Persia in disguise / Sarah Hobson -- Wall-to-wall / Mary Morris -- Travels with fortune: an African adventure / Christina Dodwell -- Russian journal / Andrea Lee -- Demon lover / Robin Morgan -- Season of stones / Helen Winternitz -- Noman's land / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- Teaching a stone to talk / Annie Dillard -- Road through Miyama / Leila Philip.
- Includes accounts by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Leonowens, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, Margaret Mead, M.F.K. Fisher, and Joan Didion.
Ämnesord
- Resor (sao)
- Kvinnliga resenärer (sao)
- Voyages and travels. (LCSH)
- Women travelers. (LCSH)
- Voyages and travels (LCSH)
- Women travelers (LCSH)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Voyages and travels.
- Women travelers.
Klassifikation
- 910.4 (DDC)
- N.07 (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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