Author: Dea Birkett
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 353125

Media: Paperback
Pages: 300

ISBN: 0760719322
EAN: 9780760719329
ASIN: 0760719322

Publication Date: 2002
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Product Description
What spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind the security and comfort of their middle-class homes to undertake perilious jounreys of thousands of miles, tramping through rain forest, caravaning across deserts, and scaling mountain rages? Dea Birkett delves into the diaries and letters of 50 such women and discovers troubled and unconventional lives...