ALLEN, ALEXANDRA — Travelling Ladies

Jupiter. 1980, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0906379164) Hardcover. Ill.: Photographs by Terry Harris. Book, Alexandra Allen traces the careers of eight remarkable ladies who flouted convention in search of knowledge, spiritual fulfillment or romance: May French Sheldon trekked across Africa, Kate Marsden visited isolated leper colonies in Siberia, Alexandra David-Neel spent fourteen years in Tibet, Daisy Bates spent most of her life in the study and care of the Australian aborigines,Jane Digby el Mesrab travelled across Europe in search of love.be fore she found happiness as the wife of a Bedouin sheik in Damascus' Mildred Cable and Evangeline and Francesca French went as missionaries across the Gobi Desert, Isabella Bishop travelled the world from the Rockies to Asia and Marianne North painted tropical flowers wherever she went. 266p.+ plates 206p.+ plates. New/As New. Signed by Author(s).