Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
10 best books like Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers (Jane Robinson): 4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages, Bad Trips, No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers, Travels in West Africa, Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward, American Indian Stories, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, Solo: On Her Own Adventure, Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers
4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages
| Author | Vicki León |
| ISBN | 1606710869 |
Since ancient times, irrepressible women have broken all kinds of barriers. They ruled. They invented. They cured people. They killed people. They ran cities and businesses. The won races, athletic and political. They explored. They bankrolled explorers. They even bankrolled religions. Almost...
| Author | Keath Fraser |
| ISBN | 0394221516 |
As with any anthology, this collection of travel stories includes a range of quality. Some of these stories are quite good, transporting the reader to a specific place and time, immersing us in the writer’s experiences. Others are a bit more pedestrian, providing some interesting glimpses at other...
| Author | Barbara Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1580084419 |
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...
| Author | Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
| ISBN | 0792266382 |
In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman--ever to...
Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
| Author | Julia Alekseyeva |
| ISBN | 1621069699 |
Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for the notorious NKVD (which became the KGB) and later...
A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
| Author | Isaac Metzker |
| ISBN | 0805209808 |
For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also...
| Author | Zitkála-Šá |
| ISBN | 0803299176 |
American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. One of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) recalled legends and tales from oral tradition and used experiences from...
| Author | Christina Henry De Tessan |
| ISBN | 1580050700 |
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
| Author | Susan Fox Rogers |
| ISBN | 1580051375 |
Back by popular demand, this second edition of Solo adds new stories to the ones readers already lovewomen pedaling across New Zealand, hiking in the Adirondacks, bodyboarding with dolphins off the California Coast, and driving through the northwestern United States. With plenty of alone-time...
| Author | Mary Morris |
| ISBN | 0679740309 |
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices, they write of disguising themselves as men for safety, of longing for family left behind or falling...
In fiction and in cinema, we see people retreat into the family when they are hurt. There they are surrounded by love and warmth and they can lick their wounds in peace. But what if it is your mother who is wounding you and then soothing you by turns? What if it is your father who seems distant or desolate, living...
In this hilarious, candid, and warm debut, Icon For Hire vocalist Ariel Bloomer bares her soul and shares her struggles, coupling accessible autobiography with practical advice and inspiration for navigating the messiest parts of life.
From growing up a passionate but troubled spiritual...
The English: A Social History, 1066-1945
| Author | Christopher Hibbert |
| ISBN | 0393023710 |
In this vivid and compelling book, Christopher Hibbert records the daily life of the English people from the days of the Norman Conquest until our own. Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, official reports, the works of modern social historians and the literature of every period, The English traces...
| Author | Neil Miller |
| ISBN | 1555838707 |
A unique and hugely absorbing narrative history of gay life—from Oscar Wilde to the first gay marriage performed in San Francisco in 2004—by the award-winning journalist and distinguished author of Out in the World and Sex- Crime Panic. Miller accompanies his narrative with essays and excerpts...
| Author | Douglas Murray |
| ISBN | 0340767707 |
There is a vogue these days for biographies of minor, peripheral characters who lived on the margins of literary greatness: Tennyson's wife, for instance, or Dickens' mistress.
This new biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquess of Queensbury and, most scandalously, the lover...
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971
| Author | Simon Karlinsky |
| ISBN | 0520220803 |
Simon Karlinsky has substantially expanded and revised the first edition of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson's correspondence to include fifty-nine letters discovered subsequent to the book's original publication in 1979. Since then, five volumes of Edmund Wilson's diaries have been published,...
Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space
| Author | Cees Nooteboom |
| ISBN | 1843430428 |
”Anyone who is travelling is always somewhere else, and therefore always absent. This holds good for oneself, and it holds good for the others, the friends; for although it is true that you are ‘somewhere else,’ and that, consequently, there is somewhere you are not, there is one place where you...
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...
A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad (Lonely Planet Journeys)
| Author | Don George |
| ISBN | 1740594193 |
We've all dreamt of escaping to a House Somewhere. In this collection some of the finest names in contemporary travel writing reveal the perils and pleasures of exchanging the familiar for the foreign.
Isabel Allende discovers love and paradise in California, Pico Iyer finds home in Japan amidst...
Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride
| Author | Peter Zheutlin |
| ISBN | 0806528516 |
At first, I was very excited to hear about this true but mostly unknown story about a 19th-century woman who rode a bicycle around the world. However, about a quarter of the way through, my disappointment in the book started growing and continued, all the way to the end. These are my comments:
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| Author | Jeanne Achterberg |
| ISBN | 0877736162 |
This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as independent and honored healers;...
| Author | Antonia Fraser |
| ISBN | 0297829068 |
A very personal anthology, Antonia Fraser has chosen the letters for their emotional power, or state of love expressed. The categories include Passions, Ecstasies, Fears and Worries, Declarations and Farewells. The anthology includes both the obvious (Byron, Keats, Abelard and Heloise) and the...
Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters---And One Man's Search to Find Them
| Author | Andrew Carroll |
| ISBN | 0743256166 |
Letters from solders in war and their correspondents, a selection going back centuries from every corner of the globe and every culture - including recent email correspondences.
There are common themes in all the letters that examine the psychological struggles and effects of war.
They...
The Wilde Album: Public and Private Images of Oscar Wilde
The most comprehensive collection of photographs and images of Wilde--compiled by his only grandson.
Oscar Wilde was one of the first and unquestionably one of the greatest self-publicists who ever lived. With that exceptional streak of modernity that characterized much of his life and...
