The Women's Review of Books, July 1st, 1994
TOWARD THE END OF THE EIGHTIES, when the American appetite for travel writing seemed insatiable, publishers began reissuing works from the past. In the fascinating library that resurfaced, women writers played a prominent role; one series, Virago/Beacon Travelers, devoted itself entirely to women. At the time, I was reviewing travel literature regularly and thought I knew the field. But I found surprises among these revivals, and I was certainly surprised to find so many by women. Their number suggested that if adventurous women were never perhaps the norm, neither were they as unusual as I'...
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