Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

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W. H. Davenport Adams. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

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WOMAN AS A TRAVELLER

COUNTESS DORA D'ISTRIA

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THE PRINCESS OF BELGIOJOSO

MADAME HOMMAIRE DE HELL

I

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MADAME HOMMAIRE DE HELL

II

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MADAME HOMMAIRE DE HELL

III

MADAME LÉONIE D'AUNET

FREDERIKA BREMER

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MADEMOISELLE ALEXINA TINNÉ

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MADAME IDA PFEIFFER

I

MADAME IDA PFEIFFER

II

MADAME DE BOURBOULON

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LADY HESTER STANHOPE

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LADY BRASSEY

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LADY MORGAN AND OTHERS

MRS. TROLLOPE

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HARRIET MARTINEAU

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MISS BIRD AND OTHERS

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W. H. Davenport Adams

Published by Good Press, 2019

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"At length we descended upon the glacier. They had abandoned me to my own resources, probably to judge of my address. I was more at ease in my clothes, and with a sure step I advanced upon the snow, striding across the crevasses which separated the different strata of ice. By accident, rather than by reflection, I looked out for the spots of snow and there planted my feet. Later I learned that this is always the safest route, and never leads one into danger. The Tyrolean took leave of us, convinced at last that I should get out of the affair. As for the guides, they gave vent to their feelings in shouts of joy. They said that, in recognition of my self-reliance, they would entrust to me the direction of the enterprise. After crossing the Mer de Glace, we began to climb the steep slopes of the Ziegenberg.

GENEVA AND MONT BLANC.

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