Maiden voyages : writings of women travelers
Title:
Maiden voyages : writings of women travelers
JLCTITLE245:
edited and with an introduction by Mary Morris in collaboration with Larry O'Connor.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
Physical Description:
xxii, 438 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780679740308
Series:
General Note:
"A Vintage departures original"--Title page verso.
Abstract:
Includes accounts by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Leonowens, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, Margaret Mead, M.F.K. Fisher, and Joan Didion.
Contents:
Excerpts from: Embassy to Constantinople / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Peregrinations of a pariah / Flora Tristan -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Life in prairie land / Eliza Farnham -- Untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys: a midsummer's ramble in the Dolomites / Amelia Edwards -- Through Algeria / Mabel Sharman Crawford -- Journal of a lady's travels 'round the world / Mrs. F.D. Bridges -- Travels in West Africa / Mary Kingsley -- A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird -- The passionate nomad / Isabelle Eberhardt -- Station life in New Zealand / Lady Mary Anne Barker -- A girl's ride in Iceland / Ethel B. Tweedie -- English governess at the Siamese court / Anna Leonowens -- Love among the butterflies / Margaret Fountaine.
Desert and the sown / Gertrude Bell -- On sledge and horseback to outcast Siberian lepers / Kate Marsden -- In Morocco / Edith Wharton -- Willa Cather in Europe / W. Cather -- Passenger to Teheran / Vita Sackville West -- My journey to Lhasa / Alexandra David-Neel -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- Sister of the road / Box-car Bertha -- Farewell Spain / Kate O'Brien -- Nine pounds of luggage / Maud Parrish -- Speak to the earth: Wanderings and reflections among elephants and mountains / Vivienne de Watteville -- Winter in Arabia / Freya Stark -- Black lamb and grey falcon / Rebecca West -- Klee Wyck / Emily Carr -- Gobi desert / Mildred Cable -- West with the night / Beryl Markham -- The cruel way / Ella Millart -- The fabled shore / Rose Macaulay -- Stones of Florence / Mary McCarthy -- A way of seeing / Margaret Meade.
Times and places / Emily Hahn -- Long ago in France / M.F.K. Foster -- Tamrart: thirteen days in the Sahara / Eleanor Clark -- Muddling through in Madagascar / Dervla Murphy -- Turkish reflections / Mary Lee Settle -- White album / Joan Didion -- Through Persia in disguise / Sarah Hobson -- Wall-to-wall / Mary Morris -- Travels with fortune: an African adventure / Christina Dodwell -- Russian journal / Andrea Lee -- Demon lover / Robin Morgan -- Season of stones / Helen Winternitz -- Noman's land / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- Teaching a stone to talk / Annie Dillard -- Road through Miyama / Leila Philip.