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Author : Mary Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853818363
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Virago Book of Women Travellers written by Mary Morris and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Morris
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781844084418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers written by Mary Morris and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women move through the world differently from men. The constraints and perils, the perceptions and complex emotions women journey with are different. For many women, the inner landscape is as important as the outer. This does not mean that the woman traveller is not politically aware, historically astute or in touch with the customs and language of the place, but it does mean that a woman cannot travel and not be aware of her body and the limitations her sex presents. This illustrated edition of The Virago Book of Women Travellers captures 300 years of wanderlust. Some of the women are observers of the world in which they wander and others are more active. Often they are storytellers, weaving tales about the people they encounter. Whether it is curiosity about the world or escape from personal tragedy, these women approached their journeys with wit, intelligence, compassion and empathy for the lives of others.
Author : Mary Morris
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780349013527
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Virago Book of Women Travellers written by Mary Morris and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' Guardian Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this collection as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside, to challenge the fierce Sahara or climb an impossible mountain. The extraordinary women in this collection are observers of the world in which they wander; their prose rich in description, remarkable in detail. Mary McCarthy conveys the vitality of Florence while Willa Cather's essay on Lavandou foreshadows her descriptions of the French countryside in later novels. Others are more active participants in the culture they are visiting, such as Leila Philip, as she harvests rice with Japanese women. Whether it is curiosity about the world, a thirst for adventure or escape from personal tragedy, all of these women are united in that they approached their journeys with wit, intelligence, compassion and empathy for the lives of those they encountered along the way. Also includes writing by Willa Cather, Joan Didion, Vita Sackville-West, M. F. K Fisher, Christina Dodwell and more.
Author : Mary Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784444407816
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Virago Book of Women Travellers Special written by Mary Morris and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784444417846
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Virago Book of Women Travellers B Pbp written by Mary Morris and published by . This book was released on 1996-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Kellaway
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 9780349008653
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners written by Deborah Kellaway and published by Virago. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers , has collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, to create a book that is replete with anecdotes and good-humoured advice. Colette, Margery Fish, Germaine Greer, Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, Vita Sackville-West, Rosemary Verey, Edith Wharton and Dorothy Wordsworth are some of the writers represented in this book.
Author : Lisa St Aubin de Terán
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9781860494178
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Virago Book of Wanderlust and Dreams written by Lisa St Aubin de Terán and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of women's writing about travel spans over 400 years, five continents, and a variety of characters from cross-dressers to armchair travellers. The authors include: Angela Carter, Jung Chang, Karen Blixen, Marsha Hunt, Bernice Rubens, Harriet Wilson, Beryl Markham, and Dorothy Par.
Author : Catherine Riley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785338080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Virago Story written by Catherine Riley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virago Story -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I - 1973-83 -- Chapter 1 - Virago's Hands-on Brand of Feminism -- Chapter 2 - Changing the Literary Landscape -- Part II - 1983-94 -- Chapter 3 - 'Alternative, Autonomous, and Viable': Feminist Publishing and the Mainstream -- Chapter 4 - Fragmenting Feminism and Diversifying Women's Writing -- Part III - 1994-2004 -- Chapter 5 - Working Women and the Changing Face(s) of the Book Industry -- Chapter 6 - Third Waves and Disconnections -- Part IV - 2004-17 -- Chapter 7 - Virago's Place in the New Millennium's Literary Marketplace -- Chapter 8 - Twenty-First-Century Feminism(s) and Virago's Role for Women's Writing -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Lennie Goodings
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198828756
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book A Bite of the Apple written by Lennie Goodings and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know that I had found my home: where books, ideas, politics, imagination, feminism, and business was the air we breathed . . .' A Bite of the Apple is part-memoir, part history of Virago, and part thoughts on over forty years of feminist publishing. This is the story of how the authors and staff who, driven by passion, conviction and excitement, have made Virago Press one of the most important and influential English-language publishers in the world. Lennie Goodings has been with the iconic press founded by Carmen Callil almost since the start. First a publicist and then for over twenty years, publisher and editor, she has worked with extraordinary authors: Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Waters, Linda Grant, Natasha Walter, Naomi Wolf and Maya Angelou among many others. Virago has been a life-changer for Lennie Goodings - but certainly not only for her. Following the chronology of the press and the enormous breadth of the Virago titles published over these years, she sets her story in the context of feminism, and segues into thoughts on editing, post-feminism, reading, breaking boundaries, and the Virago Modern Classics. Virago lives within the tension between idealism and pragmatism; between sisterhood and celebrity; between watching feminism wax and wane at the same time as knowing so many of the battles are still to be won. This book is about how it felt to be there. A Bite of the Apple is a celebration of writing, of publishing, and of reading.
Author : Lesley Blanch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439197342
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Wilder Shores of Love written by Lesley Blanch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as "enthralling to read," Lesley Blanch’s first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkish sultan’s harem; and Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss woman who dressed as a man and lived among the Arabs of Algeria.
Author : Jane Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192802011
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Unsuitable for Ladies written by Jane Robinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, thathave not been met and usually overcome by thesesame women.Jane Robinson's first book,Wayward Women, was a guide to women travellers and their writing, and having read over a thousand of their books she is uniquely qualified to compile this anthology. Life is never dull for her intrepid women, whether diving to the bed of the Timor Sea or reaching thesummit of Annapurna. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, there are tales of adventure, derring-do, and great danger. There are also moving accounts of unimaginable hardship, includingcaring for a family in an ammunition cart during the siege of Delhi and a journey through Tibet that leaves its author childless and widowed.There is no such thing as a typical woman traveller--and there never has been--as this exhilarating anthology shows on a journey of its own through sixteen centuries of travel writing, aboard almost anything from a Bugatti to a Bath chair. You are taken as far afield as it is possible to go, in thecompany of some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet.
Author : Maud Parrish
Publisher : Philadelphia, New York [etc.] J. B. Lippincott Company [c1939]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Nine Pounds of Luggage written by Maud Parrish and published by Philadelphia, New York [etc.] J. B. Lippincott Company [c1939]. This book was released on 1939 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0748119477
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller written by Various and published by Virago. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before . . . Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things in suitcases; of roads that should not have been taken; of exotic cities and shabby towns. Some are running away, and some are travelling to come home. With new stories from well-known writers, including Helen Dunmore, and an Angela Carter fable, this is a book to tuck in your backpack, your valise or to enjoy, deep in your armchair, for no one can fail to be hooked by those beguiling words: once upon a time there was a traveller . . .
Author : Mary Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780356222448
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Illustrated Virago Book/Women Trv Holder written by Mary Morris and published by . This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860491542
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Virago Book of Ghost Stories written by Richard Dalby and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty four spooky stories by classic storytellers of the twentieth century - many from the 1920s and 30s - chill and excite in this classic collection. All of them demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore those ghostly margins of the supernatural which are part of private experience as well as of popular tradition. Authors include Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Jane Howard, E Nesbit, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton and Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
Author : Julia Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681778432
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Travelers in the Third Reich written by Julia Boyd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, fascists, artists, tourists, and even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler—one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes, and its ultimate destruction.
Author : Mary Morris
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860493980
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Virago Bk Women Travellers S/Wx12 written by Mary Morris and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1996-01-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
