Overview
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 female travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and usually overcome by these women. Life is never dull for these 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Jane Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford Paperbacks
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.00cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 19.00cm
Weight: 0.335kg
ISBN: 9780192824899
ISBN 10: 0192824899
Pages: 489
Publication Date: 01 April 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Robinson's women are lively, energetic and determined probers of te world around them, and their stories make for equally lively reading, in large or small doses. --KLIATT, November 1995<br> This volume is fun to dip into....Recommended for travel collections for its breadth of coverage. --Caroline Mitchell, writing in Library Journal<br>
"""Robinson's women are lively, energetic and determined probers of te world around them, and their stories make for equally lively reading, in large or small doses.""--KLIATT, November 1995 ""This volume is fun to dip into....Recommended for travel collections for its breadth of coverage.""--Caroline Mitchell, writing in Library Journal"
Robinson's women are lively, energetic and determined probers of te world around them, and their stories make for equally lively reading, in large or small doses. --KLIATT, November 1995 This volume is fun to dip into....Recommended for travel collections for its breadth of coverage. --Caroline Mitchell, writing in Library Journal
Robinson's women are lively, energetic and determined probers of te world around them, and their stories make for equally lively reading, in large or small doses. --KLIATT, November 1995 This volume is fun to dip into....Recommended for travel collections for its breadth of coverage. --Caroline Mitchell, writing in Library Journal Robinson's women are lively, energetic and determined probers of te world around them, and their stories make for equally lively reading, in large or small doses. --KLIATT, November 1995 This volume is fun to dip into....Recommended for travel collections for its breadth of coverage. --Caroline Mitchell, writing in Library Journal Robinson's women are lively, energetic and determined probers of te world around them, and their stories make for equally lively reading, in large or small doses. --KLIATT, November 1995 This volume is fun to dip into....Recommended for travel collections for its breadth of coverage. --Caroline Mitchell, writing in Library Journal Robinson's women are lively, energetic and determined probers of te world around them, and their stories make for equally lively reading, in large or small doses. --KLIATT, November 1995 This volume is fun to dip into....Recommended for travel collections for its breadth of coverage. --Caroline Mitchell, writing in Library Journal
Author Information
Jane Robinson is the author of Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers (OUP, 1990), and is established as one of the world's leading authorities on women travellers.
