Great Women Travel Writers

Description

Includes ten contributor's writings on 250 years of women travel writers. Travel is a quest, an escape, a passion. Women explorers and travellers are a special breed. This book covers 22 courageous women who encircled the globe, and boldly crossed international barriers often to encounter the most patriarchal cultures of their time.

Author description

Bettina Knapp is the author of over 50 books, including Anais Nin, Gertrude Stein, Antonin Artaud, French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach, and Women in Myth. She lives in New York City. Both editors have travelled the world, apart and together. Alba Amoia is the author of Twentieth-century Italian Women Writers, No Mothers We!, Albert Camus, Feodor Dostoevsky, and other works. She lives in Rome.

Table of contents

Introduction; Princess Ekaterina (Catherine) Romanovna Vorontsova (1743-1810); Friederike Brun (1765-1835); Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839); Fredrike Bremer (1801-65); Princess Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso (1808-71); Fanny Lewald (1811-89); Belle Marsh Poate (1847-96); Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922); Daisy Bates (1859-1951); Edith Wharton (1862-1937); Gertrude Bell (1868-1926); Alexandra David Neel (1868-1969); Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904); Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (1885-1962); Freya Stark (1893-1993); Hayashi Fumiko (1903-51); Anais Nin (1903-77); Xie Bingying (born Ming Gang) (1906-2000); Ruth Gruber (1911-); Oriana Fallaci (1930-); Sharon Spencer (1933-2002). Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937-).