Travel Guides and Memoirs for Women
by Women
In case you're wondering, gutsy
women have been exploring the world
for centuries. Here's a partial
list of memoirs and travel guides
for adventuresome women dating back
almost 200 years.
A Journey of One's Own: Uncommon
Advice for the Independent Woman
Traveler;
Thalia Zepatos
A Thousand Days in Venice; Marlena
De Blasi
Algerian Memories (1895); Fanny
Bullock Workman, 1859-1925
Almost French: Love and
a New Life in Paris;
Sarah Turnbull
Alone in West Africa (1912);
Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt, 1861-1942
Around the Bloc: My Life
in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana;
Stephanie Elizondo Greist
Avoiding Prison and Other
Noble Vacation Goals;
Wendy Dale
Cairo in 1890 (1917); Woolson, Constance
Fenimore, 1840-1894
Customs Among the Natives
of East Africa (1892); Mary
French Sheldon,
1847-1936
Five Months in the Argentine From
a Woman's Point of View (1920); Katherine
Sophie Dreier,
1877-1952
Four Corners: A Journey
into the Heart of Papua New
Guinea; Kira
Salak
Gutsy Women: More Travel Tips
and Wisdom for the Road; Marybeth Bond
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure;
Sarah Macdonald
Letters from the United
States, Cuba and Canada (1856); Amelia
M. Murray,
1795-1884
Nellie Bly's Book: Around
the World in Seventy-Two
Days. (1891); Nellie
Bly, 1864-1922
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha:
Two Years in the Heart of
an African Village;
Sarah Erdman
Nothing to Declare: Memoirs
of a Woman Traveling Alone;
Mary Morris
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess (1886,
1907); Emilie Ruete, 1844-1924
Notes of an Old Naturalist (1894); Catherine
Parr Strickland Traill, 1802-1899
Recollections of a Happy Life (1893);
Marianne North, 1830-1890
Rural Hours (1850); Susan Fenimore Cooper,
1813-1894
Some African Highways (1908);
Caroline Kirkland
Somebody’s Heart
is Burning: A Woman Wanderer
in Africa;
Tanya Shaffer
Tales of a Female Nomad:
Living at Large in the World;
Rita Golden Gelman
Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental
Trip (1859); Caroline Paine
The Best Women's Travel Writing
2005: True Stories from Around
the World;
Lucy McCauley
The Development of Dodos (1896);
Mary Henrietta
Kingsley, 1862-1900
The Girl's Guide to Traveling
Solo;
Deanna G. Wolff
The South American Tour (1913); Annie
Smith Peck
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