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<p><b>Women of the World</b> looks at eight women whose heroic journeys added to the world's geographic knowledge: Ida Pfeiffer, an 19th century women with "an insatiable desire to travel" who circled the world—twice, Fanny Bullock Workman, the world's foremost woman moutaineer, an early feminist, and one of the most controversial figures in modern geography, and Alexandra David-Neel, the first western woman to enter Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet.</p> <p>Describes some of the explorations and discoveries made by women throughout history, including Ida Pfeiffer, Isabella Bird Bishop, and Florence Baker. </p>

Author

Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951-

Publisher

Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195077254

Subjects

Travel, Biography, Anthropology