Description for Telling Travels
Hardcover. Num Pages: 337 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. .
With the advent of the "steam palace" in the nineteenth century, American women set out to see the world. Women from various walks of life—prototypes of Daisy Miller, Isabel Archer, and Undine Spragg—crossed the oceans in record numbers. As they traveled abroad to faraway destinations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, China, and India, many recorded their experiences and their impressions of foreign lands.
Women speak for themselves in Telling Travels, a selection of narratives from travel books by nineteenth-century American women. Included here are such famed authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nellie Bly, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
Number of Pages
337
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875801957
SKU
V9780875801957
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for Telling Travels
"It is expressive and confident women such as these who helped American women obtain greater independence, and ultimately changed their world."—Times Literary Supplement "A valuable contribution."—Nineteenth-Century Literature