Full name: Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers

Author: Dea Birkett Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Travel, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780631156048 9780760719329 0631156046

Birkett draws upon the diaries and writings of more than 50 women to vividly reconstruct the aspirations and experiences of the Victorian pioneers who ventured through the remote peaks and perilous rivers of horizons abroad--spurning the security and comfort of their middle-class lives.