Currently reading
A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogy
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
All the Names
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Down the Garden Path
Virtue Betray'd, Or, Anna Bullen
Year of Wonders
Swallows and Amazons
Illusion in java
Well, I read most of it. While it was a fascinating look at how women travellers experienced the world and were treated in the past, I wasn't interested in every destination. Mostly, I liked reading what it was like to travel in the 18th and 19th centuries, when every destination was so very different from the next and from home. Letters were infrequent and so they were long and contained much detail. What surprised me most was the lack of prejudice or suspicion in most (although not all) of the women. We tend to think of tolerance of different cultures as essentially modern, but these women had a lot to say about a Euro-centric view of the world.