Spinsters Abroad

Victorian Lady Explorers

Dea Birkett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2004
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-3721-4 (ISBN)

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Spinsters abroad

What spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind the security and comfort of their middle-class homes to undertake perilous journeys of thousands of miles? This book draws on the diaries, letters and other writings of more than 50 such women to describe their experiences and aspirations.

Dea Birkett was born in 1958 and is an author, journalist and traveller. She won the Somerset Maughan Award for Jella: From Lagos to Liverpool: A woman at Sea in a Man's World. Her other books include Serpent in Paradise, an account of her time on Pitcairn Island with the descendants of the Bounty Mutineers and Amazonians: The Penguin book of Women's Travel writing.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.3.2004
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7509-3721-1 / 0750937211
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-3721-4 / 9780750937214
Zustand	Neuware