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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 : 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 :
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 : 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 : 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 : 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:
Author : Mary Morris
Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 : 9781853820564
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Virago Women Travellers Book Club written by Mary Morris and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 : 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 : Mary Findlater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crossriggs written by Mary Findlater and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonia White
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0748127623
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Lost Traveller written by Antonia White and published by Virago. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Clara returns home from the convent of her childhood to begin life at a local girls' school, she is at a loss: although she has comparative freedom, she misses the discipline the nuns imposed and worries about keeping her faith in a secular world. Against the background of the First World War, Clara experiences the confusions of adolescence - its promise, its threat of change. She longs for love, yet fears it, and wonders what the future will hold. Then tragedy strikes and her childhood haltingly comes to an end as she realises that neither parents nor her faith can help her. The Lost Traveller is the first in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which continues with The Sugar House and Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.
Author : Mary Morris
Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 : 9780356223940
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Virago Bk Women Travellers Bkclb written by Mary Morris and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2000-10-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonora Carrington
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374641
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Hearing Trumpet written by Leonora Carrington and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”
Author : Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253062055
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women written by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural context for the 17th- to 20th-century writings of Muslim women travelers in ten different languages. Queens and captives, pilgrims and provocateurs, these women are diverse. Their connection to Islam is wide-ranging as well, from the devout to those who distanced themselves from religion. What unites these adventurers is a concern for other women they encounter, their willingness to record their experiences, and the constant thoughts they cast homeward even as they traveled a world that was not always prepared to welcome them. Perfect for readers interested in gender, Islam, travel writing, and global history, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women provides invaluable insight into how these daring women experienced the world—in their own voices.
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:
