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Victorian lady travellers

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Victorian lady travellers

by Middleton, Dorothy

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New York, Dutton, 1965, 1965. Very Good. xiii, 182 p. illus., map, ports. 22 cm. ; Contents: Well-qualified ladies -- The globe trotteresses -- Isabella Bird Bishop, 1831-1904 -- Marianne North, 1830-1890 -- The champions -- Fanny Bullock Workman, 1859-1925 -- May French Sheldon, 1848-1936 -- The servers -- Annie Taylor, 1855-? -- Kate Marsden, 1859-1931 -- The voyager -- Mary Kingsley, 1862-1900. ; LC: CT3203; Dewey: 910/.88042; B; 910.922 ; OCLC: 390251 ; LCCN: 65-19958 ; "A lively, amusing retelling of the adventures of seven unique women, who fearlessly travelled to remote corners of the earth: Isabella Bird Bishop, Marianne North (a botanist who painted in Brazil), Fanny Bullock Workman (photographer and mountaineer), Annie Taylor, May French Sheldon, Kate Marsden, and Mary Kingsley." ; Isabella Lucy Bird (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, and a natural historian.; Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was an English naturalist and botanical artist ; Fanny Bullock Workman (January 8, 1859 - January 22, 1925) was an American geographer, cartographer, explorer, and mountaineer, notably in the Himalayas ; May French Sheldon (1847–1936) was a publisher, author and explorer. ; Kate Marsden , founder of the St. Francis Leprosy Guild ; Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism. ; Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American adventurer who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; green cloth ; no dustjacket ; VG

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Title
Victorian lady travellers
Author
Middleton, Dorothy
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Used - Very Good
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Hardcover
Publisher
New York, Dutton, 1965
Date Published
1965
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Contents: Well-qualified ladies -- The globe trotteresses -- Isabella Bird Bishop, 1831-1904 -- Marianne North, 1830-1890 -- The champions -- Fanny Bullock Workman, 1859-1925 -- May French Sheldon, 1848-1936 -- The servers -- Annie Taylor, 1855-? -- Kate

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