Off The Beaten Track

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 144 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Off the Beaten Track takes us on an exhilarating journey through three centuries of travel, in the company of such women voyagers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, Isabella Bird and Rebecca West. Not only did women from the West travel to the Americas, Russia and Turkey, Arabia and the Middle East, Africa and South-east Asia, but women from all corners of the globe also visited the West. This book records their experiences and reveals where they travelled, what they looked like, how they described new landscapes and cultures in both words and images, and what they brought back with them. The common link between these women traveller is that their lives are celebrated in Londons National Portrait Gallery collection. While they all travelled for different reasons, collectively they reveal something about the Wests relationship with other cultures and challenge our assumptions about womens achievements.

ISBN: 9781740662185