This book features the lives of 45 19th- and 20th-century American and European (including British) women who devoted their lives to the exploration of remote areas of Asia, South America, Africa, and the Pacific in search of unknown societies and tribes, archaelogical ruins, plants, animals, or just plain adventure. Their published travel accounts and the example of their adventures inspired generations of women to undertake journeys to areas previously considered closed to women. For each woman featured there is a detailed biographical essay, a bibliography of their published and unpublished works, as well as a listing of books and articles written about them. A valuable compilation.
- Olga Wise, Tandem Computers Inc. Lib., Austin, Tex.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
“Tinling has written a book about the exploration and derring-do of 42 women who, individually, or with another, ventured forth to parts unknown or little known in the 19th and 20th centuries. The women were selected because they have published books of travel in the English language. Included in Tinling's book are essays about Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop, Lady Anne Blunt, Louise Boyd, Elspeth Huxley, Mary Kingsley, Ella Maillart, Annie Peck, Dame Freya Stark, and Fanny Workman, to name but a few. The accomplishment of each is sketched in biographical form that will variously intrigue, interest, and fascinate readers of varied persuasions. To each biographical sketch is added a bibliography of books by the traveler and `works about' the traveler; there is also a 30 page selected list of exploration and travel books written by women. Nine maps are added to help the reader follow the journeyings of these explorers. A brief `Selected Bibliography' and index complete a most interesting volume. Undergraduate and public libraries.”–
“This book features the lives of 45 19th and 20th-century American and European (including British) women who devoted their lives to the exploration of remote areas of Asia, South America, Africa, and the Pacific in search of unknown societies and tribes, archaelogical ruins, plants, animals, or just plain adventure. Their published travel accounts and the example of their adventures inspired generations of women to undertake journeys to areas previously considered closed to women. For each woman featured there is a detailed biographical essay, a bibliography of their published and unpublished works, as well as a listing of books and articles written about them. A valuable compilation.”–
“Women into the Unknown is, above all, a useful volume, but I mean `useful' in its best sense. It combines a short biography of forty-two women explorers and travelers with a bibliography of works by and/or about them. . . . It contains good stories imaginatively in all sorts of ways.”–
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