The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt
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The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt

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eBook - ePub

The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt

About this book

For the first time in ebook format.

What drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet, when it was still cut off from the world and so hostile to foreigners, and particularly female ones, that they had to wear male Tibetan dress for protection? What did Hester Stanhope and Gertrude Bell, two such different women, find so compelling about the desert life of the East? What possessed Mary, Duchess of Bedford, to take up flying at the age of 60 – or Naomi James to sail around the world, or Arlene Blum to climb Annapurna? These, and other, accounts of women travellers experiences around the world are included in this book.

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Information

Publisher
Flamingo
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780006547488
eBook ISBN
9780007464142
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Historical Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. 1: ‘A Most Excellent Reason’
  7. 2: Pilgrims to Freedom
  8. 3: Flights of Fancy
  9. 4: At Sea
  10. 5: Reaching the Summit
  11. 6: Queens of the Desert
  12. 7: To Follow or to Lead?
  13. 8: A Question of Duty
  14. 9: Escape or Compromise?
  15. 10: Risks and Dangers
  16. 11: Survival Strategies
  17. 12: ‘Merely Feminine Curiosity’
  18. Epilogue: ‘The Will of a Woman’
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Acknowledgements
  22. About the Author
  23. Some Works by Women Travellers
  24. Copyright
  25. About the Publisher

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