Research Catalog

Title

Women into the unknown : a sourcebook on women explorers and travelers / Marion Tinling.

Author

Tinling, Marion, 1904-2006.

Publication

New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 356 pages : maps; 25 cm

Subject

• Women explorers > Biography
• Women explorers
• Biografie
• Entdeckungsreise
• Frau
• Ontdekkingsreizigers
• Vrouwen

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

• Harriet Chalmers Adams : in the steps of Columbus -- Delia Denning Akeley : lions and Pygmies of Africa -- Lucy Atkinson : motherhood on Siberian steppes -- Florence von Sass Baker : to the Nile source -- Daisy Bates : Australia's Aborigines -- Gertrude Bell : Persian treasures -- Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop : a Victorian around the world -- Lady Anne Blunt : Arabian men and horses -- Margaret Bourke-White : world-class photojournalist -- Louise Arner Boyd : on arctic shores -- Mildred Cable, Evangeline French, and Francesca French : three in the Gobi Desert -- Lucy Evelyn Cheesman : entomologist in the South seas -- Violet Cressy-Marcks : roaming the Andes and China -- Alexandra David-Neel : to Lhasa in disguise.
• Lady Florence Dixie : from Patagonia to Africa -- Christina Dodwell : Africa, New Guinea, and China -- Marika Hanbury-Tenison : native cultures of Brazil and Indonesia -- Marguerite Baker Harrison : imprisoned in Russia -- Elspeth Josceline Huxley : of men and animals in Africa -- Osa Leighty Johnson : photographing African wildlife -- Mary Kingsley : a long skirt in West Africa -- Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Smith Gibson : scholar adventures in the Sinai -- Ella Maillart : crossing Central China -- Elizabeth Sarah Mazuchelli : Himalayan adventure -- Ynes Mexia : plant collecting in South America -- Dervla Murphy : wheels and donkeys in many lands -- Blair Niles : the Far East and South America.
• Marianne North : flowers of the world -- Annie Smith Peck : South American summits -- Dame Margery Freda Perham : colonial Africa -- Ida Reyer Pfeiffer : twice around the world -- Susie Carson Rijnhart : tragedy in Tibet -- Anne Newport Royall : early American travel -- Grace Gallatin Thompson Seton : a feminist abroad -- May French Sheldon : Sultans in East Africa -- Dame Freya Madeline Stark : Ionian quest -- Carrie Adell Strahorn : stagecoaches in the American West -- Anna Louise Strong : journey into communism -- Ella Constance Sykes : sidesaddle through Persia -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas : among primitive Africans -- Alexine Tinne : exploring the Nile -- Fanny Bullock Workman : Himalayan climbs.

ISBN

• 0313253285
• 9780313253287

LCCN

88018677

OCLC

• ocm18069780
• 18069780
• SCSB-1714695

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library