Not All Bonnets and Bustles

Victorian Women Travellers in Africa

Elizabeth Bradley, Annie Hore, Helen Caddick (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2007
Bookline and Thinker Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-9555630-1-0 (ISBN)

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These first-person accounts are raw and reveal a world more untouched than any we will find today. How many of us would put up with rats running over our hair, cockroaches in our beds and cooks who clean dishes with spit? The bravery of these women cannot be denied. They truly went where few had been before.

Victorian women travellers were not docile. They were fearless. Eliza Bradley was shipwrecked, captured and taken as a slave until the British Consul paid a ransom to free her. Annie Hore set off with her baby son and missionary husband only 11 years after Stanley took the same route in pursuit of Dr. Livingstone. Helen Caddick was carried across Africa in a hammock accompanied by 25 local bearers, cooks, guides and a boy translator who spoke only Biblical English. Read their stories, in their own words, and learn what adventure used to be.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2007
Zusatzinfo	black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	312 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Afrika
ISBN-10	0-9555630-1-1 / 0955563011
ISBN-13	978-0-9555630-1-0 / 9780955563010
Zustand	Neuware