Female Historical Travel Writing (42 books)

See the pre-industrialized (for the most part) world out of female eyes. Fascinating for those interested in history, travel, feminism, anthropology, or related subjects.

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1	Turkish Embassy Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu 3.47 avg rating — 1,060 ratings score: 296, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Doktorka z domu Trubačů by Ilona Borská 4.49 avg rating — 237 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Letters Written During A Short Residence In Sweden, Norway And Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft 3.53 avg rating — 1,051 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Milton Trollope 3.70 avg rating — 522 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail by Marion Sloan Russell 4.28 avg rating — 100 ratings score: 190, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird 3.97 avg rating — 3,787 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers by Barbara Hodgson 3.67 avg rating — 216 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel 4.02 avg rating — 1,530 ratings score: 185, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna L. Stratton 4.02 avg rating — 1,380 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Six Months among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands: The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella Lucy Bird 3.90 avg rating — 329 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate by Annelie Rozeboom (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 45 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Up the Country: Letters from India by Emily Eden 3.61 avg rating — 92 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Siân Evans 3.73 avg rating — 1,095 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Foreigner's Confession by Lya Badgley (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-Néel 3.97 avg rating — 2,364 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Golden Chersonese: A 19th-Century Englishwoman's Travels in Singapore and the Malay Peninsula by Isabella Lucy Bird 3.84 avg rating — 91 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient by Barbara Hodgson 4.06 avg rating — 65 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders by Li Juan 3.95 avg rating — 678 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Selected Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu 3.88 avg rating — 49 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Tales from the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell 3.84 avg rating — 68 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure by Amanda Adams 3.75 avg rating — 208 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs 4.06 avg rating — 1,397 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Englishwoman in America by Isabella Lucy Bird 3.68 avg rating — 132 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The English Governess at the Siamese Court: The True Story Behind 'The King and I' by Anna Harriette Leonowens 3.36 avg rating — 605 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Women's Indian Captivity Narratives by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola (Editor / Contributor) 3.61 avg rating — 218 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Life and Travel in India: Being Recollections of a Journey Before the Days of Railroads by Anna Harriette Leonowens 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell 3.79 avg rating — 529 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the N by Isabella Lucy Bird 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Fanny Kemble's Journals by Fanny Kemble 3.55 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Brown Thrasher Books) by Fanny Kemble 3.92 avg rating — 348 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote by Mary Hallock Foote 3.63 avg rating — 81 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse 4.02 avg rating — 1,348 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (Yale Western Americana Paperbound, Yw-3.) by Susan Shelby Magoffin 3.60 avg rating — 236 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 3,680 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman by Mpho M'Atsepo Nthunya 3.95 avg rating — 485 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Oregon and California Trail Diary of Jane Gould in 1862: The Unabridged Diary by Jane H. Gould 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak 3.90 avg rating — 2,695 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Oregon and Overland Trail Diary of Mary Louisa Black in 1865 by Mary Louisa Black really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary by Cecilia Adams 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Writing the Trail: Five Women's Frontier Narratives by Deborah Lawrence 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 (Covered Wagon Women, #1) by Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 435 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Virago Book of Women Travellers by Mary Morris (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.98 avg rating — 200 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars