'A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' Guardian

'The authors have been responsible for some of the very best in travel writing, the results of some extraordinary journeys' Sunday Times

Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured here as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside, to challenge the fierce Sahara or climb an impossible mountain.

Gertrude Bell
Ella Maillart
Isabella Bird
Beryl Markham
Box-Car Bertha
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Willa Cather
Robin Morgan
Alexandra David-Neel
Mary Morris
Joan Didion
Dervla Murphy
Isak Dinesen
Kate O'Brien
Christina Dodwell
Maud Parrish
Isabelle Eberhardt
Vita Sackville-West
Amelia Edwards
Freya Stark
M. F. K. Fisher
Frances Trollope
Sarah Hobson
Rebecca West
Mary McCarthy
Edith Wharton
Rose Macaulay
Mary Wollstonecraft