| Magical Sites: Women Travelers in 19th Century Latin America Contributor(s): Agosin, Marjorie (Editor), Leveson, Julie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1877727946 ISBN-13: 9781877727948 Publisher: White Pine Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2010 Annotation: This intriguing group of travel journals reveals the voices of women who traveled in Latin America during the nineteenth century. From French nuns who left their homelands to establish convents in Latin America to well-bred English women who accompanied their husbands on business travels, these women discovered a world beyond anything they had known or expected and recorded it in their journals. Their male counterparts may have discovered the land, but these women discovered its heart and soul. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - History | Latin America - South America |
| Dewey: 980 |
| LCCN: 99011291 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.55" W x 8.52" (0.62 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Latin America - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cultural Writing. Essays. Edited by Majorie Agosin and Julie H. Levison. This intriguing group of travel journals reveals the voices of women who traveled in Latin America during the nineteenth century. From French nuns who left their homelands to establish convents in Latin America to well-bred English women who accompanied their husbands on business travels, these women discovered a world beyond anything they had known or expected and recorded it in their journals. Includes previously unpublished work, as editor Marjorie Agosin found some of these journals forgotten in a musty convent library in Santiago, Chile. All entries show us the private thoughts and indomitable spirits of women who dared to move beyond the safety of hearth and home and in doing so, discovered not only new lands, but also themselves. |