Across Patagonia

Dixie, Florence

A Victorian Woman Explorer's Horseback Journey Through Pampas, Andes, and Tehuelche Country

9,80 €

ISBN: 9788027382477

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 148 g

Produktinformationen "Across Patagonia"

Across Patagonia recounts Florence Lady Dixie's 1878-79 journey through one of the least familiar regions to Victorian readers, blending expedition narrative, sporting adventure, ethnographic observation, and lyrical landscape writing. Its pages move from windswept pampas and Andean vistas to encounters with Indigenous Tehuelche people, while its brisk, vivid prose reflects the conventions of nineteenth-century travel literature even as it challenges them through a woman's commanding presence in spaces coded as masculine. Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905), a Scottish aristocrat, journalist, traveller, and later an advocate for women's rights, brought to the book both privilege and restlessness. Her appetite for physical hardship, hunting, and independence shaped the narrative's energy, while her dissatisfaction with restrictive social expectations helps explain her attraction to Patagonia as a place of imaginative and bodily freedom. Her later public career as a correspondent and reformer is already foreshadowed here. This book is highly recommended to readers interested in Victorian travel writing, women explorers, South American landscapes, and the history of imperial-era encounter. Read critically, it is both an exhilarating adventure and a revealing document of its age.

Eigenschaften "Across Patagonia"

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

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