by Jane Robinson · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192824899
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«Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers» by Jane Robinson is the paperback anthology of travel writing published by Oxford Paperbacks.
Jane Robinson brings together in this anthology chronicles, diaries and letters by women travellers from sixteen centuries, from Alpine ascents to crossings of seas and jungles. It includes texts by Florence Nightingale, Mary Shelley, Freya Stark, Karen Blixen and Mary Kingsley, with introductions that contextualise each account.
Published in English in 1995, 496 pages. Includes a section of maps and illustrations.
For readers of travel literature, women's history and accounts of exploration.
Jane Robinson is an Australian former rower - a national champion, three-time World Champion and triple Olympian. She competed at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2004; and at World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, and 2003. She won World Championships as both a sculler and a sweep-oared rower, and was a genius at maths. She attended Toorak College in Mount Eliza, Victoria.
