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Travels Of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming The Completion Of Her Memoirs (Volume I)

Travels Of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming The Completion Of Her Memoirs (Volume I)

Lucy Stanhope, Hester

Paperback

Travel GeneralGeneral EuropeGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354507662
ISBN13: 9789354507663
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before the guidebooks came, there was Lady Hester Stanhope. A life lived against convention. In Travels Of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming The Completion Of Her Memoirs (Volume I), her voice carries you into middle east journeys seen through the eyes of a British woman explorer who refused to be managed by society, fashion, or fear. This public domain travel classic blends memoir with observation, making it a classic travel memoir collection of rare immediacy. Stanhope moves through the nineteenth century Levant with a sharp feel for people, power, and place, offering vivid glimpses of Ottoman Levant society and the realities behind diplomatic rumour and drawing-room myth. For readers drawn to women's travel writing, Victorian travel literature, and primary source history, her perspective enriches women's history studies while opening a window on Syria and Lebanon travels at a turning point in the region's story. If you love Isabella Bird travel books, you will recognise the same appetite for the road, tempered here by a formidable, aristocratic will. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Part historical document, part portrait of a singular mind, it belongs on the shelf of classic-literature collectors and in the hands of anyone who wants travel writing with grit, intelligence, and consequence.

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