This is a collection of over 300 years of essays on travel writing by women, including essays on the vitality of Florence and the French countryside.
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A truly wonderful gift book for all armchair travellers ... 300 years of wanderlust are captured by women who travelled the world. (BOOKS)
Attractive and engrossing anthology of women's travel writing (INDEPENDENT)
A terrific anthology of women as warm in all corners of "abroad" (SCOTSMAN)
The 47 authors have been responsible for some of the very best in travel writing, the results of some extraordinary journeys. Many have become classics. (SUNDAY TIMES)
Book Description:
A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' - The Guardian
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1853818364
- ISBN 13 9781853818363
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages438
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