Across Patagonia

Dixie, Florence

A Victorian Woman Explorer's Journey Through the Argentine Pampas and Tehuelche Frontier

9,80 €

ISBN: 9788027378173

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 148 g

Produktinformationen "Across Patagonia"

Across Patagonia (1880) records Lady Florence Dixie's 1878-79 expedition through the southern plains of Argentina, a region then still imagined by many Europeans as remote, perilous, and scarcely mapped. Blending travel narrative, sporting memoir, and ethnographic observation, Dixie writes in a vigorous Victorian prose marked by lyric descriptions of wind-swept pampas, sharply paced hunting scenes, and encounters with Tehuelche communities. The book belongs to the great nineteenth-century tradition of exploratory writing, yet its female authorship gives its adventure, authority, and self-fashioning a distinctive force. Dixie herself was an aristocratic nonconformist: a Scottish-born noblewoman, traveler, journalist, war correspondent, and later an outspoken advocate of women's rights. Her appetite for physical risk and resistance to conventional domestic roles clearly shaped the journey and the narrative. Patagonia offered her not merely exotic scenery, but a stage on which to test courage, independence, and observational competence against masculine imperial assumptions. This book is recommended to readers interested in Victorian travel literature, women explorers, South American landscapes, and the cultural history of adventure. It remains compelling as both document and performance: a bold account of place, identity, and freedom.

Eigenschaften "Across Patagonia"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Reisen und Urlaub
Verlag:	e-artnow

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