Maiden Voyages Writings of Women Travelers

This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices, they write of disguising themselves as men for safety, of longing for family left behind or falling in love with people met along the way, and of places as diverse as icy Himalayan passes and dusty American pioneer towns, the darkly wooded Siberian landscape and the lavender-covered hills of Provence. Yet even as their voices, experiences, and paths vary, they share with one another—and with us as readers—reflections upon their gender as it is illuminated by unfamiliar surroundings. Edited and with an Introduction by Mary Morris, in collaboration with Larry O'Connor.

Contributors and writings include:
Mary Wollstonecraft, "Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark"
Flora Tristan, "Peregrinations of a Pariah"
Frances Trollope, from "Domestic Manners of the Americans"
Eliza Farnham, from "Life in Prairie Land”
Isabella Bird, from "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains"
Margaret Fountaine, from "Love Among the Butterflies"
Gertrude Bell, from "The Desert and the Sown"
Edith Wharton, from "In Morocco"
Willa Cather, from "Willa Cather in Europe”
Isak Dinesen, from "Out of Africa"
Kate O'Brien, from "Farewell Spain"
Rebecca West, from "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"
Ella Maillart, from "The Cruel Way"
Emily Hahn, from "Times and Places"
M.F.K. Fisher, from "Long Ago in France"
Joan Didion, from "The White Album"
Christina Dodwell, from "Travels with Fortune: An African Adventure”
Annie Dillard, from "Teaching a Stone to Talk”
Gwendolyn MacEwen, from "Noman's Land"

Mary Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels A Mother's Love and House Arrest, as well as the travel memoir classic Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone. The recipient of the Rome Prize in literature and a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, she was raised in Chicago and now lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

Introduction
from Embassy to Constantinople	p. 3
from Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark	p. 8
from Peregrinations of a Pariah	p. 14
from Domestic Manners of the Americans	p. 20
from Life in Prairie Land	p. 29
from Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites	p. 36
from Through Algeria	p. 42
from Journal of a Lady's Travels Round the World	p. 47
from Travels in West Africa	p. 57
from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains	p. 69
from The Passionate Nomad	p. 75
from Station Life in New Zealand	p. 79
from A Girl's Ride in Iceland	p. 89
from The English Governess at the Siamese Court	p. 95
from Love Among the Butterflies	p. 107
from The Desert and the Sown	p. 118
from On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers	p. 122
from In Morocco	p. 128
from Willa Cather in Europe	p. 135
from Passenger to Teheran	p. 140
from My Journey to Lhasa	p. 144
from Out of Africa	p. 152
from Sister of the Road	p. 158
from Farewell Spain	p. 166
Nine Pounds of Luggage	p. 173
from Speak to the Earth: Wanderings and Reflections among Elephants and Mountains	p. 181
from Winter in Arabia	p. 189
from Black Lamb and Grey Falcon	p. 195
from Klee Wyck	p. 202
from The Gobi Desert	p. 212
from West with the Night	p. 231
from The Cruel Way	p. 243
from The Fabled Shore	p. 250
from Stones of Florence	p. 260
from A Way of Seeing	p. 271
from Times and Places	p. 278
from Long Ago in France	p. 293
from Tamrart: Thirteen Days in the Sahara	p. 301
from Muddling Through in Madagascar	p. 315
from Italian Days	p. 329
from Turkish Reflections	p. 336
from The White Album	p. 341
from Through Persia in Disguise	p. 350
from Wall-to-Wall	p. 366
from Travels with Fortune: An African Adventure	p. 374
from Russian Journal	p. 390
from The Demon Lover	p. 401
from Season of Stones	p. 403
from Noman's Land	p. 411
from Teaching a Stone to Talk	p. 417
from The Road Through Miyama	p. 423
from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains	p. 431
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