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Alexander's Path
• Freya Stark
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Stark retraces the route of Alexander the Great along the shores of Turkey, passing through Xanthus, Miletus and Myra. An excellent companion for a trip between Kusadasi and Antalya.
(TKY32, $15.95)
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Annapurna, A Woman's Place
• Arlene Blum
• EXPLORATION
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This account of the historic 1978 climb celebrates the first American ascent of Annapurna by a team of 13 women. The climbers were also, notably, the first women to scale any of the world's 8,000 meter-peaks.
(HML30, $16.00)
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The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914
• Gertrude Bell
• Rosemary O'Brien
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The diaries of the extremely literate, extremely adventurous Gertrude Bell, from her days in Arabia.
(ARB52, $29.95)
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
• Rebecca West
• Christopher Hitchens
• HISTORY
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First published in 1941, this monumental work explores the complex history of Yugoslavia, its heroes, politics and culture. It's a big, challenging book -- some call it the best ever written on the Balkans.
(BLK04, $25.00)
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The Cruelest Journey, Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu
• Kira Salak
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Adventurer Kira Salak's account of her journeys on the Niger River and her record-breaking 600-mile solo kayaking trip to Timbuktu.
(WAF75, $26.00)
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The Curve of Time
• Muriel Wylie Blanchet
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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Blanchet's delightful, unlikely account of life aboard a 25-foot ketch with her young family. It's a funny, vivid account of Vancouver Island, full of memorable detail on people and place.
(PNW48, $15.95)
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
• Julia Blackburn
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this wonderfully original biography, Blackburn recreates the life of Daisy Bates (1861-1951), who abandoned her comfortable surroundings in 1913 to live for 30 years in the wilderness. It opens memorably "There was once a woman who lived in the desert."
(AUS37, $13.00)
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The Desert and the Sown
• Gertrude Bell
• Rosemary O'Brien
• EXPLORATION
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A fierce explorer and archaeologist, lyrical writer and cunning politician, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) spent much of her life traveling throughout present-day Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan & Israel.
(MDE59, $19.95)
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Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell
• Janet Wallach
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A lively biography of Gertrude Bell, a Middle East adventuress, and formidable personality in colonial Britain.
(MDE37, $15.95)
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The Flame Trees of Thika
• Elsbeth Huxley
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The classic account of a young woman's life as a pioneering settler in Thika, Kenya. Huxley looks back at her intrepid parents and the home they made together in Kenya's Highlands.
(EAF24, $15.00)
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I Married Adventure, The Lives of Osa and Martin Johnson
• Osa Johnson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Osa Johnson's 1940 account of adventures in places she never expected to visit, including Borneo and Kenya.
(PAC110, $19.95)
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The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
• Mary Morris
• Larry O'Connor
• EXPLORATION
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An anthology of mostly British and American women writing around the world, with diverse selections including Mary Wollenstonecraft, Edith Wharton, Rose Macaulay, Gertrude Bell and Freya Stark. With archival and color photographs throughout.
(EXP29, $24.95)
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In the Arms of the Sky
• Earl Murray
• LITERATURE
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A dimestore romance about explorer Isabella Bird and her one-eyed paramour Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent.
(EXP26, $6.99)
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Isabella Bird
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Isabella Bird was an inspiring -- and intrepid -- Victorian traveler. This book collects her letters home to her sister Henrietta during travels through the Colorado Rockies in 1873, a side-trip she made on the way home from Hawaii.
(USW44, $7.95)
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Letters to Henrietta
• Lisa Chubbuck
• Isabella Bird
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This extremely enjoyable collection of letters back home capture the verve and spirit of the globe-trotting spinster from the Isle of Mull.
(WLD39, $22.95)
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Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880
• Libby Beaman
• Betty John
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAVORITE
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Beaman's wonderfully evocative account, peppered with drawings and period photographs, depicts life in the Pribilof Islands.
(ARC07, $16.95)
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Life in Mexico
• Frances Calderon De La Barca
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A wonderfully insightful, celebrated series of letters written by the Scottish wife of the Spanish Ambassador from Mexico, 1839-1842.
(MEX36, $22.95)
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Life in the Treetops, Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology
• Margaret Lowman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The sprightly memoir of an ecologist who climbs, studies and sleeps in trees for a living, balancing multiple roles of scientist, wife and mom. She continues her story in a second memoir (written with her now-grown sons).
(AMZ57, $13.95)
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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
• Emily Ruete
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Born Princess Salme in the Sultan's court on Zanzibar, the author wrote this book in the 1800s as a tribute to the island for her children. It is rich in details of a long-lost way of life, recalling the time when the sultans reigned on Zanzibar.
(EAF44, $25.95)
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My Journey to Lhasa
• Alexandra David-Neel
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Dressed as a humble pilgrim and traveling under the cover of night, the indomitable 55-year-old David-Neel and her young companion climbed mountains and tricked soldiers to ultimately reach Tibet's forbidden capital. Originally published in 1923, her account stands as a riveting portrait of early 20th-century Tibet.
(TBT26, $14.95)
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North to the Orient
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• EXPLORATION
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A classic account of pioneering aviation, this wonderfully written memoir includes adventures in Petropavlovsk and the Russian Far East, Japan and the Yangtze.
(ARC36, $12.00)
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The Oblivion Seekers
• Paul Bowles
• Isabelle Eberhardt
• LITERATURE
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Isabelle Eberhardt was born in Switzerland in 1877, dressed as a boy throughout her childhood, traveled through Africa as a journalist and died before turning 30. Collected here are 13 of this remarkable woman's short stories set in Algeria.
(NAF10, $10.95)
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Off the Beaten Track. Three Centuries of Women Travellers
• Dea Birkett
• Jan Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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A marvelous selection of portraits of raveling women, with 120 illustrations, 100 in color.
(TVL39, $40.00)
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On Top of the World, Five Women Explorers in Tibet
• Luree Miller
• EXPLORATION
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An inspiring account of the adventures of five intrepid women explorers in 19th-century Tibet.
(TBT28, $12.95)
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Passionate Nomad, the Life of Freya Stark
• Jane Fletcher Geniesse
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A biography of the legendary female "poet of travel," Freya Stark.
(MDE28, $15.95)
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Quiet Odyssey, A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
• Mary Paik Lee
• Sucheng Chan
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Mary Paik Lee was an authentic pioneer -- one of the first Korean-Americans and a crusader for civil rights.
(USW397, $16.95)
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Recollections of a Happy Life, Being the Autobiography of Marianne North
• Marianne North
• EXPLORATION
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An illustrated account of the intrepid Victorian traveler, botanist and painter Marianne North.
(GBR328, $25.00)
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The Southern Gates of Arabia, a Journey in the Hadhramaut
• Freya Stark
• EXPLORATION
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An account of Stark's quest to find the ancient city of Shabwa, the heretofore unexplored oasis on Yemen's frankincense route. Witty, rapturous and full of incident.
(MDE52, $13.95)
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This Cold Heaven, Seven Seasons in Greenland
• Gretel Ehrlich
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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Ehrlich spent seven seasons in Greenland, mostly alone, traveling by boat, helicopter, plane and dogsled. This exhilarating book reflects her insight, knowledge and deep appreciation of the people and barren landscapes of the north.
(ARC107, $14.95)
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The Thong Also Rises
• Jennifer Leo
• ANTHOLOGY
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More outrageous stories of traveling women versus the unexpected, by the entertaining, well-traveled (and delightful) editor of Sand in My Bra and Whose Panties are These?
(TVL89, $14.95)
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Travelers' Tales, Women in the Wild
• Lucy McCauley
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A sampling of tales of climbing Mt. Everest, swimming Lake Titicaca, rescuing endangered animals in Vietnam, wild-river rafting in Borneo, and other adventures by notable figures including Jane Goodall, Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams, Alice Walker, Robyn Davidson, Gretel Ehrlich, and Louise Erdrich.
(GEN100, $17.95)
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Two in the Far North
• Margaret Murie
• Olaus Murie
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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Murie's field biologist husband supplies not only fodder for the stories, but also the illustrations for this tale of life on the Alaskan frontier.
(ALA57, $16.95)
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
• Isabella Bird
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Bird's narrative of her travels in Japan in 1878, just after the country re-opened its doors to the world. She wasted little time on the cities, heading straight out to meet the peasants in their fields.
(JPN94, $12.95)
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Uncommon Traveler, Mary Kingsley in Africa
• Don Brown
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A biography of the intrepid Victorian traveler for younger readers.
(WAF57, $16.00)
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Unsuitable for Ladies, An Anthology of Women Travellers
• Jane Robinson
• ANTHOLOGY
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A choice sampling of the writing of 200 remarkable women, organized geographically. From the Victorian-era derring-do of Mary Kingsley to Florence Nightingale's war diaries, Karen Blixen on her farm in Africa and recent adventures of the indomitable Dervla Murphy, these are inspiring and wonderfully written accounts of travel.
(EXP18, $24.95)
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The Valleys of the Assassins, and Other Persian Travels
• Freya Stark
• EXPLORATION
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A remarkable account of adventures in remote Persia by the intrepid Freya Stark, originally published in 1934. Her expedition discovered the site of Lammassar, the second of the great fortresses to be discovered in the remote Alamut Valley
(MDE53, $15.00)
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Venus in Transit, Australian Women Travellers 1788-1930
• Douglas Sellick
• ANTHOLOGY
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A collection of women's writing about Australia and Australian travel from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
(AUS157, $24.95)
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Victorian Lady Travellers
• Dorothy Middleton
• EXPLORATION
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An inspiring account of seven terrific women and their adventures in heretofore unexplored lands.
(EXP15, $11.00)
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West with the Night
• Beryl Markham
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAVORITE
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A stylish and engrossing story of a marvelous life well lived. Markham describes her childhood in Kenya and her experiences as a bush pilot in the 1930s, evoking the landscapes, people and wildlife of East Africa in rich detail.
(EAF10, $15.00)
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Whose Panties are These?
• Jennifer Leo
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This entertaining anthology of mishaps around the globe from a collection of women writers, a sequel to Sand in My Bra. It continues the theme of adventurous women getting themselves into -- and out of -- sticky, generally humorous situations.
(TVL80, $14.95)
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The Wilder Shores of Love
• Leslie Blanch
• EXPLORATION
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Subtitled "The Exotic True-Life Stories of Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby, and Isabelle Eberhardt," this cult favorite features a quartet of uncommonly adventurous European women, all of whom gravitated to the Middle East and North Africa.
(EXP28, $16.95)
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With the Armies of the Tsar, A Nurse at the Russian Front in War and Revolution, 1914-1918
• Frances Farmborough
• HISTORY
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A WWI memoir by a witness to the Russian revoltuion.
(RUS139, $19.95)
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A Woman's Asia
• Marybeth Bond
• ANTHOLOGY
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These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller.
(ASA49, $17.95)
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Women into the Unknown, A Sourcebook on Women Explorers and Travelers
• Marion Tinglin
• EXPLORATION
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A library-style reference to female travelers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
(EXP20, $110.95)
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Women of the Four Winds
• Elizabeth Olds
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A collection of four lively biographies of four 20th-century American explorers.
(EXP19, $21.95)
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
• Lillian Schlissel
• HISTORY
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A fascinating, well researched selection of women's diaries and journals from the Wild West, including vivid accounts of buffalo hunts, Indian raids, childbirth under difficult circumstances, geological wonders and a telling amount of inward trepidation. With black-and-white photographs throughout.
(USW395, $14.95)
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