Off the beaten track
three centuries of women travellers
by Dea Birkett
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Off the Beaten Track takes the reader on a 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, Russia and Turkey, Arabia and the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia, but women from all corners of the globe also visited Britain. This book records their experiences - where they went, what they looked like, how they evoked other lands and cultures in words and images and what they brought back with them - and is illustrated throughout with portraits from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London, as well as paintings, drawings, photographs, objects and letters from their travels.
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Exhibitions, Women travelers, Portraits, History| Edition | Availability |
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Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers
July 13, 2006, National Portrait Gallery
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in English
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Off the beaten track: three centuries of women travellers
2004, National Portrait Gallery
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-141) and index.
"Published to accompany the exhibition Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers, held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 7 July to 31 October 2004"--T.p. verso.
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