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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Birkett draws upon the diaries and writings of more than 50 women to vividly reconstruct the aspirations and experiences of the Victorian pioneers who ventured through the remote peaks and perilous rivers of horizons abroad--spurning the security ...

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