![]() ![]() From Lady Ann Fanshawe, who disguised herself as a cabin boy ro confront a band of Spanish pirates, to Isabella Bird, who traversed the muddy trails of Japan by horseback despite severe back pain, the women profiled in these pages sacrificed personal comfort and respectability to pursue exotic experiences that had traditionally been open only to men. ![]() Their exploits beg the question: just when was a woman ~ place in the home? In No Place Jor a Lady, Barbara Hodgson traces three hundred years of world travel by both celebrated and unknown women who endured bed bugs, scorching heat, exotic diseases, destructive thunderstorms, plagues of scorpions and many other life threatening situations~all in the name of adventure. ![]() ~The globe~trotting women in this book, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of unheralded anony mous ones, tore down boundaries, leaving as their legacy a world wide open Jor today's women. several full page glossy plates, some in color. illustrated throughout with vintage photos & illustrations. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc ~. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. Glossy green & tan illustrated hardbound 8vo. ![]()
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