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Index
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Introduction
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
from Embassy to Constantinople
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
from Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Flora Tristan (1803–1844)
from Peregrinations of a Pariah
Frances Trollope (1780–1863)
from Domestic Manners of the Americans
Eliza Farnham (1815–1864)
from Life in Prairie Land
Amelia Edwards (1831–1892)
from Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites
Mabel Sharman Crawford (ca. 1830–1860)
from Through Algeria
Mrs. F. D. Bridges (ca. 1840–?)
from Journal of a Lady’s Travels Round the World
Mary Kingsley (1862–1900)
from Travels in West Africa
Isabella Bird (1831–1904)
from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904)
from The Passionate Nomad
Lady Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911)
from Station Life in New Zealand
Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (ca. 1860–1940)
from A Girl’s Ride in Iceland
Anna Leonowens (1834–1914)
from The English Governess at the Siamese Court
Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940)
from Love Among the Butterflies
Gertrude Bell (1868–1926)
from The Desert and the Sown
Kate Marsden (1859–1931)
from On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers
Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
from In Morocco
Willa Cather (1876–1947)
from Willa Cather in Europe
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962)
from Passenger to Teheran
Alexandra David-Neel (1868–1969)
from My Journey to Lhasa
Isak Dinesen (1885–1962)
from Out of Africa
Box-Car Bertha (ca. 1900–?)
from Sister of the Road
Kate O’Brien (1897–1974)
from Farewell Spain
Maud Parrish (1878–1976)
from Nine Pounds of Luggage
Vivienne De Watteville (1900–1957)
from Speak to the Earth: Wanderings and Reflections among Elephants and Mountains
Freya Stark (1893–1993)
from Winter in Arabia
Rebecca West (1892–1983)
from Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Emily Carr (1871–1945)
from Klee Wyck
Mildred Cable (1878–1952) and Francesca French (1871–1960)
from The Gobi Desert
Beryl Markham (1902-1986)
from West with the Night
Ella Maillart (1903–)
from The Cruel Way
Rose Macaulay (1881-1958)
from The Fabled Shore
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)
from Stones of Florence
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
from A Way of Seeing
Emily Hahn (1905–)
from Times and Places
M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992)
from Long Ago in France
Eleanor Clark (1913–)
from Tamrart: Thirteen Days in the Sahara
Dervla Murphy (1931–)
from Muddling Through in Madagascar
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934–)
from Italian Days
Mary Lee Settle (1918–)
from Turkish Reflections
Joan Didion (1934–)
from The White Album
Sarah Hobson (1947–)
from Through Persia in Disguise
Mary Morris (1947–)
from Wall-to-Wall
Christina Dodwell (1951–)
from Travels with Fortune: An African Adventure
Andrea Lee (1953–)
from Russian Journal
Robin Morgan (1941–)
from The Demon Lover
Helen Winternitz (1951–)
from Season of Stones
Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)
from Noman’s Land
Annie Dillard (1945–)
from Teaching a Stone to Talk
Leila Philip (1962–)
from The Road Through Miyama
Isabella Bird (1831-1904)
from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
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