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10 best books like The Lives of Beryl Markham (Errol Trzebinski): Around the World in 72 Days, Straight on Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham, No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories, On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World, River House, Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran

Around the World in 72 Days
AuthorNellie Bly
ISBN1558887636
Originally published in 1890 in book form, the text was based on Nellie Bly's newspaper articles for the New York World. In 1889, Bly went around the world as a journalism "stunt" to beat the fictional record of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg -- and even made a stop in France to meet Verne. Since no cover image...
Straight on Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham
AuthorMary S. Lovell
ISBN0312010966
This is truly a fair-minded piece of work by an author who travelled extensively and took the trouble to meet the woman she intended to write about. Beryl Markham was truly a complicated woman, and not always (maybe not ever) a pleasant one. I was so impressed by the book allegedly written by Markham, West...
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
AuthorBarbara Hodgson
ISBN1580084419
While it's a noticeable improvement over my last attempt at reading a book about female travelers, No Place for a Lady still wasn't what I was hoping for.

My main disappointment was the book's superficial feel. Some of that likely has to do with its location-based organization, which turns...
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
AuthorArlene Blum
ISBN0156031167
A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the first all-female teams on successful ascents of Mount McKinley and Annapurna and by being the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. At the same time, her groundbreaking scientific work challenged...
The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories
AuthorBeryl Markham
ISBN0865473013
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...
On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet
AuthorLuree Miller
ISBN0898860970
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....
Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
AuthorHolly Morris
ISBN0375760636
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited...
Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
AuthorRita Golden Gelman
ISBN0307588017
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has...
River House
AuthorSarahlee Lawrence
ISBN0982569130
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...
Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran
AuthorChristiane Bird
ISBN0671027565
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...
The Sun in the Morning: My Early Years in India and England
AuthorM.M. Kaye
ISBN0312049994
M.M. Kaye’s memories are as beautiful as her descriptive prose in this colorful and wistfully evocative memoir of her youth in India, which to her was always home. The reader will come away with a different view of India during the time of the Raj, and before the Great War. Anything but a political book,...
The Life and Times of Chaucer
AuthorJohn Gardner
ISBN0394493176
The facts about Geoffrey Chaucer's life are plentiful enough. It is the connections between the facts that seem to elude us--those subtle nuances of feeling & emotion that a biographer relies on to paint a true, complete portrait. Lacking these, we are almost compelled to make the story up as we...
The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty
AuthorJean Zimmerman
ISBN0156032244
The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, a brash and ambitious twenty-two-year-old bent on making her way in the New World. She promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate that included all of Westchester County. The Dutch called...
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
AuthorFreya Stark
ISBN0375757546
In 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her most unforgettable adventure: Following the ancient frankincense routes of the Hadhramaut Valley,...
The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
ISBN0618035494
One year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between Harvard and Hangzhou University. At Hangzhou she was able to overcome her students' usual rigidity and achieve a rare and intimate glimpse of their culture and their attitudes. This remarkable...
Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn
AuthorKen Cuthbertson
ISBN0571199658
Known as "Mickey" to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 1920s; ran away to the Belgian Congo as a Red Cross worker during the Great Depression; was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s; had an illegitimate child with the head of the British Secret...
China to Me
AuthorEmily Hahn
ISBN0759240604
A revolutionary woman for her time, Emily Hahn takes us on an adventure through the many faces that populate the landscape of China. Blending fiction and non-fiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breath-taking journey through the China of the nineteen-thirties....
Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
AuthorSara Wheeler
ISBN1400060699
Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler...
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll
AuthorPaul Spicer
ISBN1429984724
In the spirit of Frances Osborne's The Bolter, this fascinating life of femme fatale and gorgeous Chicago heiress, Alice de Janzé, offers a solution to the decadesold murder of Lord Erroll—the story at the center of James Fox's acclaimed book and movie White Mischief

A glamorous American...
The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya
AuthorFrances Osborne
ISBN1844084817
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off...
White Mischief
AuthorJames Fox
Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenya's colonial community,...
African Nights
AuthorKuki Gallmann
ISBN0060954833
Lyrical, beautifully written tales of life in Africa. Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of...
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