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Adventurous Victorian Women Travelers and Explorers - Boise Public Library
Adventurous Victorian Women Travelers and Explorers

A Bibliography

 

Bates, Daisy  1861-1951, British


Daisy Bates:  The Biography of a Remarkable Victorian Woman
Elizabeth Salter
994.04 Sa37D

Daisy Bates in the Desert
Julia Blackburn
305.4092 BATES BLACKBURN

Bell, Gertrude  1868-1926, British


Gertrude Bell
H.V.F. Winstone
915.0441 WINSTON

The Desert and the Sown
Gertrude Bell
915.6 BELL

Desert Queen:  The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell:  Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Janet Wallach
956.0209 BELL WALLACH

Bird, Isabella 1831-1904, British


A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird, A Remarkable Victorian Traveller
Pat Barr
910.92 BIRD BARR

Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer
Evelyn Kaye
910.92 BIRD KAYE

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Bird, Isabella
917.8 BIRD

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Including a Summer in the Upper Karum Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs
Bird, Isabella
915.5 B54 v.01 and v. 02

Letters to Henrietta
Bird, Isabella
909.8109 BIRD

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Bird, Isabella
915.2043 BIRD

Blunt, Lady Anne  1837-1917, British


A Pilgrimage to Nejd, The Cradle of the Arab Race: A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and “Our Persian Campaign”
915.304 BLUNT

David-Neel, Alexandra 1868-1969, French


Magic and Mystery in Tibet
915.15 DAVIDNE

My Journey to Lhasa
915.15  DAVIDNE

The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel:  A Biography of The Explorer of Tibet and its Forbidden Practices
294.3092 DAVIDNE FOSTER

Dietz, Nettie Fowler,  American


A White Woman in a Black Man’s Country, Three Thousand Miles Up the Nile To Rejaf
916.2 D56w

Eberhardt, Isabelle  1877-1904, Russian


Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt
Annette Kobak
B EBERHAR KOBAK

Oblivion Seekers, and Other Writings
Isabelle Eberhardt
965.03 EBERHAR

The Passionate Nomad:  The Diary of Isabelle Eberhardt
B EBERHAR

Estby, Helga  1860-1942,  American

 
Bold Spirit:  Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
973.8709 ESTBY HUNT 

Forbes, Rosita  1893-1967, British

 
Forbidden Road: Kabul to Samarkand
915.8 F746

Sultan of the Mountains: The Life Story of Raisuli
916.4 F74

 Unicorn in the Bahamas
917.296 F746 

Hollenback, Amelia  1877-1969, American

 
Immortal Summer: A Victorian Woman’s Travels in the Southwest:  The 1897 Letters and Photographs of Amelia Hollenback
979.02 HOLLENB

Kingsley, Mary  1862-1900,  British

 
One Dry Season:  In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley
Caroline Alexander
916.721  ALEXAND

A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley
Katherine Frank
B KINGSLE FRANK

 Travels in West Africa
Mary Kingsley
916.604 KINGSLE 

Sackville-West, Victoria   1892-1962, British

 
Passenger to Teheran
915.5045 SACKVIL

Wulsin, Janet  1893?-1963, American

 

Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and  Mongolia, 1921-1925
OV 915.1044 WULSIN CABOT

Collections of Stories About Intrepid Women Travelers and Explorers


All True:  The Record of Actual Adventures That Have Happened To Ten Women of Today
920.7 AL5

Ladies on the Loose:  Women Travellers of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Leo Hamalian, editor
910.8 LADIES

Wayward Women:  A Guide to Women Travellers
Jane Robinson
016.9104 ROBINSO

Women of Discovery:  A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World
Milbry Polk and Mary Tiegreen
OV 920.72 POLK

Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America’s First Women Explorers
Elizabeth Fagg Olds
910.922 OLDS 





“To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.”

Alexandra David-Neel

 
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