Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the PresentAlba della Fazia Amoia, Bettina Liebowitz Knapp A&C Black, 1. 1. 2005. - 304 страница Travel is sacred. Travel is a quest. Travel is an escape. Travel is a passion! It is enlightening, a distraction, a novelty, a dream fulfilled. It may inspire joy, terror, longing – often, all three. Women explorers and travelers are a special breed. Some were also great writers, recording their cross-cultural impressions with stunning vividness, blending history, myth, technology, and poetic imagination. The 22 courageous women profiled in this book encircled the globe. Together, they form a grand tradition and speak to us today as never before – - Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839) left the comfort of England to wander through the Near East – never to return home, so deeply did she treasure her freedom - Fanny Lewald (1811-89) traveled through Europe and especially Italy to record its Risorgimento - Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) traveled from India and lived through Western experiences that revamped her ideas - Daisy Bates (1859-1951), Irish to the roots, immersed herself in Australian Aboriginals - Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), dubbed Queen of the Desert, was the most powerful woman in Edwardian England - the Danish Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) made her mark in Africa - Anaïs Nin (1903-77) may be thought of as a mental traveler - Freya Stark (1893-1993) – knighted by Queen Elizabeth for her contribution to travel literature – lived among the Druze of Syria and in shades of our own time researched the deadly terrorist group of ancient Persian Assassins - Oriana Fallaci (1930- ) has literally covered the world - Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937- ), has surely traveled the farthest as the first woman in space A dozen other women who boldly crossed international barriers often to encounter the most patriarchal cultures of their time are focused on in this delightful book – a significant contribution to travel literature as well as to women’s studies. |
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Introduction | 9 |
Princess Ekaterina Catherine Romanovna Vorontsova Dashkova 17431810 II | 11 |
Friederike Brun 17651835 | 27 |
Lady Hester Stanhope 17761839 | 38 |
Fredrika Bremer 18011865 | 55 |
Princess Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso 18081871 | 64 |
Fanny Lewald 18111889 | 86 |
Belle Marsh Poate 18471896 | 96 |
Alexandra DavidNeel 18681969 | 158 |
Isabelle Eberhardt 18771904 | 170 |
Isak Dinesen Karen Blixen 18851962 | 179 |
Freya Stark 18931993 | 194 |
Hayashi Fumiko 19031951 | 205 |
Anaïs Nin 19031977 | 219 |
Xie Bingying born Ming Gang 19062000 | 232 |
Ruth Gruber 1911 | 248 |
Pandita Ramabai 18581922 | 113 |
Daisy Bates 18591951 | 126 |
Edith Wharton 18621937 | 139 |
Gertrude Bell 18681926 | 147 |
Sharon Spencer 19332002 | 272 |
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