Off the Beaten Track

Hardback

Main Details

Title Off the Beaten Track
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dea Birkett
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 227,Width 220
Category/GenreGeographical discovery and exploration
Travel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9781740662185
ClassificationsDewey:910.922
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
General
Illustrations colour photos

Publishing Details

Publisher Hardie Grant Books
Imprint Hardie Grant Books
Publication Date 1 October 2004
Publication Country Australia

Description

Off the Beaten Track takes us on an exhilarating journey through three centuries of travel, in the company of such women voyagers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, Isabella Bird and Rebecca West. Not only did women from the West travel to the Americas, Russia and Turkey, Arabia and the Middle East, Africa and South-east Asia, but women from all corners of the globe also visited the West. This book records their experiences and reveals where they travelled, what they looked like, how they described new landscapes and cultures in both words and images, and what they brought back with them.