Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers by Dea Birkett

Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers

Dea Birkett

300 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
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This glimpse at the early 1900s draws upon diaries and letters of 50 women explorers and vividly reconstructs their journeys. Dissatisfied with the cramped lives prescribed for them in the late Victorian era, they sought new horizons. From West Af...

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