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Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers
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Author
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Dea Birkett. Jan Morris, foreword.
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Publisher
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National Portrait Gallery
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Format
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laminated cover
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9
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0.75
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ISBN
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9781855145269
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Pages/Publication Date
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144/2004
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Daedalus Item Code
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21356
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Description
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A winner of the Somerset Maugham Award who has also been shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, broadcaster and travel writer Dea Birkett conducts this 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 Freya Stark. Not only did women from Britain travel to the Americas, to Russia and Turkey, and to the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia, she notes, but women from all corners of the globe also visited Britain. This book records their experiences, illustrated with works from Britain's National Portrait Gallery.
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