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Published by London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2004, 2004
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Birkett, Dea, 1958-. Off the beaten track: three centuries of women travellers. Foreword by Jan Morris. London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2004, 144pp., very good square hardcover with illustrated covers, previous owner's lengthy and appealing gift inscription on front endpaper. Off the Beaten Track takes the reader on a journey through three centuries of travel, in the company of such women voyagers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville West, Isabella Bird and Freya Stark. Not only did women from Britain travel to the Americas, Russia and Turkey, Arabia and the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia, but women from all corners of the globe also visited Britain. This book records their experiences - where they went, what they looked like, how they evoked other lands and cultures in words and images and what they brought back with them - and is illustrated throughout with portraits from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London, as well as paintings, drawings, photographs, objects and letters from their travels. 9781855145269 ISBN 185514526X.
Published by Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1989
ISBN 10: 0631156046ISBN 13: 9780631156048
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; [224]p : ill, maps ; 24cm. Subjects; Women travelers Great Britain Biography History and criticism. Women travelers History 19th century. Voyages and travels History 19th century. Women explorers History 19th century. Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian, 1868-1926. North, Marianne, 1830-1890. Kingsley, Mary, 1862-1900. 1 Kg.
Published by Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1989
ISBN 10: 0631156046ISBN 13: 9780631156048
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Book First Edition
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; [224]p : ill, maps ; 24cm. Subjects; Women travelers Great Britain Biography History and criticism. Women travelers History 19th century. Voyages and travels History 19th century. Women explorers History 19th century. Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian, 1868-1926. North, Marianne, 1830-1890. Kingsley, Mary, 1862-1900. 1 Kg.