Magical Sites
Subtitle: Women Travelers in 19th Century Latin America
Contributors: Marjorie Agosin (Editor)
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781877727948
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Women's studies; Visitors, Foreign; Latin America; 18th And 19th Century Description And Travel; Women travelers; Travel - General; Travelers' writings; Travel; Social life and customs; Essays & Travelogues; Women Authors; Women's Studies - History; Travel / General; 19th century; Description and travel; History
First sentence: From the fiery vapors that rise from the lakes of dormant Andean volcanoes to the green Patagonian mists that sweep up from the Antarctic tip, the land and water of Latin America tempt the uncommon woman to a foreign terrain.
Description: This intriguing group of travel journals reveals the voices of women who traveled in Latin America during the nineteenth century. From French nuns who left their homelands to establish convents in Latin America to well-bred English women who accompanied their husbands on business travels, these women discovered a world beyond anything they had known or expected and recorded it in their journals. Their male counterparts may have discovered the land, but these women discovered its heart and soul.