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A Woman's Journey Round the World
Ida Pfeiffer
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Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. "The Woman's Journey Around the World, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor" is the travel diary of the first of her two trips "around the world", following her successful trips to the Holy Land and to Iceland.
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. "The Woman's Journey Around the World, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor" is the travel diary of the first of her two trips "around the world", following her successful trips to the Holy Land and to Iceland.
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Community Reviews
What an amazing journey that was. I think the - to us - historical perspective is fascinating. What she did, and what she went through are almost beyond my imagining in this world of fast planes and instantaneous communication. I thought it was a lot of fun to read, but I suspect it isn't to everybo
Amazing, to meet princes as you travel in far flung places before the motorcar was invented. So much to discover and on sailing vessels too.
This is clearly an important book to read if you are interested in 19th century traveling women. Ida Pfeifer was the first woman to travel unaccompanied around the world and probably the first woman to travel around the world period. She wasn’t young, wealthy or traveling in a group.
She had made pr
Written more than 175 years ago in a very different world from the present. As a reader, you have to adjust for that and withhold judgement. Otherwise, I enjoyed her adventures and her comments on the people she met and the places she visited. She comes across as inquisitive, energetic and forthrigh
I loved this sensitive and observant German woman's memoirs of travelling on her own around the Middle East in the mid-19th century. She sounds like a contemporary woman, her language and worldview is not dated in the least, which I find remarkable. She is up for anything, can take a lot of discomfo
Fascinating. She may be a tad racist for modern audiences, but otherwise her observations are droll and spot-on. Worthy reading, especially during travel. Will look up some of her other travel writing.