Western Women Travelling East 1716-1916 - Tuson, Penelope (Historian and Archivist, Historian and Archivist)

This is a lavishly illustrated account of three centuries of Western women's travel writing on the East. Drawing on the superb collection of books and manuscripts in the Arcadian Library in London it describes the lives and travels of well-known women such as Mary Wortley Montagu, Florence Nightingale, Gertrude Bell, and Lady Anne Blunt.