num_pages: 300
description: What spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind the security and comfort of their middle-class homes to undertake perilious jounreys of thousands of miles, tramping through rain forest, caravaning across deserts, and scaling mountain rages? Dea Birkett delves into the diaries and letters of 50 such women and discovers troubled and unconventional lives...
language: English
title: Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers
titlecomplete: Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers
genres: Adventure, Nonfiction, Womens, Travel, Womens Studies, Research, History, Victorian
ratings_count: 69
publisher: Barnes & Noble