No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
10 best books like No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers (Barbara Hodgson): Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier, Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures, 1850-1950, The Virago Book of Women Travellers, The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels, The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories, Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the "King and I" Governess, On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go
Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier
| Author | Linda Peavy |
| ISBN | 0806130547 |
Pioneer Women provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith vividly describe the hardships such women endured journeying west and making homes and communities on the frontier. Their hopes and fears and, most of...
| Author | Alexandra Lapierre |
| ISBN | 2080300180 |
An award-winning novelist brings to life the stories of the greatest women adventurers in history. From deserts and jungles to mountains and icebergs, they faced unimaginable dangers as they crossed all five continents, often armed with little more than a corset and an umbrella. Spanning a decade,...
The Virago Book of Women Travellers
| Author | Mary Morris |
| ISBN | 1860492126 |
Some of the extraordinary women whose writings are including in this collection are observers of the world in which they wander; their prose rich in description, remarkable in detail. Mary McCarthy conveys the vitality of Florence while Willa Cather's essay on Lavandou foreshadows her descriptions...
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
| Author | Freya Stark |
| ISBN | 0375757538 |
Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only...
The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories
| Author | Beryl Markham |
| ISBN | 0865473013 |
I loved West With the Night, so I was looking forward to this one. Pah! Let's establish right up front that when I was a kid we had horses. I love their soft velvety lips with the prickly chin whiskers, their smooth coats, the way they twitch their skin to flick off the flies, their welcoming nickers, the way...
Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the "King and I" Governess
| Author | Susan Morgan |
| ISBN | 0520252268 |
If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. To write this definitive account, Susan Morgan traveled...
On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet
| Author | Luree Miller |
| ISBN | 0898860970 |
It is a pleasure to review a book that tells the story of five women that explore the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet. Three of the women are English travelers, one is an American and one is a French scholar. These women were often dressed in traditional Victorian dress while climbing at 17,000 feet plus....
| Author | Rosemary Mahoney |
| ISBN | 0618446656 |
The Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman's personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys: visiting an Anglican shrine to Saint Mary in Walsingham, England; walking the five-hundred-mile...
| Author | Jennifer L. Leo |
| ISBN | 1885211929 |
Travel isn’t always what we dream it will be, but...oh the stories that follow! For the 25 women in this book who packed their sense of humor as they traveled from Alaska to Zanzibar, the journey brought tales of misadventure that their children and grandchildren, and readers of this book, will never...
| Author | Stephanie Elizondo Griest |
| ISBN | 1932361472 |
With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go encourages women of any age to see the world — in a group, with a friend, or solo — and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations of many countries, states, and regions, and on interviews...
HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel...
| Author | Errol Trzebinski |
| ISBN | 0393312526 |
Drawing on her own long association with Markham, as well as diaries, letters, and interviews, Errol Trzebinski unravels the complexities of one of the century's great personalities.
Markham's memoir, West with the Night, was rediscovered in 1983 and became an instant bestseller, though...
| Author | Amelia Earhart |
| ISBN | 0609800329 |
Well, I'm not going to lie I was expecting the book to be a little more personable. It was a great book, but I wanted to know more of what she was feeling and even more about her relationship with her husband. I kept on trying to see if she were ever going to say that she missed him or thought about him from time...
| Author | Sarahlee Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0982569130 |
An exquisite blend of memoir and nature writing, River House is the story of a young woman returning home to her family’s ranch and building a log house with the help of her father. An avid river rafter, Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and, by the age of twenty-one, had rafted some of...
| Author | Christiane Bird |
| ISBN | 0671027565 |
Fusing travelogue, historical inquiry, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, Neither East Nor West is a landmark contribution to travel writing and to cultural studies, as well as a timely illumination of a nation deeply misunderstood by most Westerners. In describing life in Iran...
| Author | Bob Brier |
| ISBN | 1137278609 |
The world has always been fascinated with ancient Egypt. When the Romans conquered Egypt, it was really Egypt that conquered the Romans. Cleopatra captivated both Caesar and Marc Antony and soon Roman ladies were worshipping Isis and wearing vials of Nile water around their necks. What is it about...
| Author | Jane Fletcher Geniesse |
| ISBN | 0375757465 |
Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, her legend was launched.
Leaving...
The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story
| Author | Alison Thompson |
| ISBN | 0385529163 |
Alison Thompson, a filmmaker living in New York City, was enjoying Christmas with her boyfriend in 2004 when she saw the news reports online: a 9.3 magnitude earthquake had struck the sea near Indonesia, triggering a massive tsunami that hit much of southern Asia. As she watched the death toll climb,...
No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the Century
Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese...
They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
| Author | Barbara Holland |
| ISBN | 0385720025 |
Throughout history there have been women, endowed with curiosity and abundant spirit, who stepped out of the cave, cast off the shackles of expectation, and struck out for new territory. In this ode to bold, brash, and sometimes just plain dangerous women, Barbara Holland reanimates those rebels...
A World of Curiosities: Surprising, Interesting, and Downright Unbelievable Facts from Every Nation on the Planet
| Author | John Oldale |
| ISBN | 0452297834 |
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: everything you never knew you never knew about every country on Earth.A scientist by training and an explorer by passion, Dr. John Oldale has logged half a million miles visiting more than ninety nations. Now, he celebrates our weird and wonderful world in a cornucopia...
Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution
| Author | Melissa Lukeman Bohrer |
The heroism of the females of the American Revolution has gone from memory with the generation that witnessed it, and nothing, absolutely nothing, remains upon the ear of the young of the present day. -- Charles Francis Adams
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin -- these are the names...
