The blessings of a good thick skirt: women travellers and their world

About this book

What drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet when it was still cut off from the world and so hostile to foreigners and particularly female ones so they had to wear male Tibetan dress for protection? What did Hester Stanhope and Gertrude Bell two such different women find so compelling about the desert life of the East? What possessed Mary Duchess of Bedford to take up flying at the age of 60 - or Naomi James to sail around the world or Arlene Blum to climb Annapurna? These and other accounts of women travellers experiences around the world are included in this book.