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

Author: Mary Morris
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/28/1993
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.32w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780679740308


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/1994 pg. 146
Publishers Weekly 08/30/1993

About the Author
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.


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