A century of women travellers….

Clover Stroud writes in the Telegraph, reviewing Women Travellers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950 (Flammarion, £24)”In the wake of Sir Edmund Hillary’s death, it’s worth remembering not only the vast numbers of intrepid women explorers, but also – as this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book makes clear – the many “ordinary” women who travelled at times when one might have expected them to be homebound by convention.”

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