The Nine Greatest Women’s Travel and Adventure Books Ever

1. The Nine Greatest Women’s Travel and Adventure Books Ever The Nine Greatest Women’s Travel and Adventure Books Ever Badass Women Adventurers Who Defied All of the Odds The explorations of women have never gotten their proper due, and it’s time that changed. Women have partaken in some of the most spectacular exploratory feats in history. I realized I failed to make that point in my earlier article The 10 Greatest Travel Adventure Books of All Time, terrific as those books are. This article is a small attempt to remedy that shortcoming. I was reminded of how many great women explorers there are when Cyn and I were traveling on Navimag, a ferry taking us through the wild islands of the Patagonian archipelago on our Vagabond Adventure. I was standing on deck watching the dark blue waters of the Pacific and all of the untamed

2. islands that surrounded us, when I met Maria, a quiet, almost shy, gray-haired women from Germany who now lived in the Netherlands. She had spent the better part of the past year working as a volunteer in Mexico before continuing to travel around South America. While Cyn and I were on our way to Antarctica, Maria was heading to Argentina and then back home. “Have to get to work,” she said with a wan smile. During the four day trip we talked a lot about the travel books we had read and then after we parted ways, we stayed in touch. Once back in the Netherlands she mentioned she had begun reading about, Ella Maillart, a Swiss woman who - besides competing in skiing and sailing competitions - travelled solo to central Asia in the 1930’s. I had never heard of her. Maybe, I thought, it was time to track down more adventurers like her. When I did, I found phenomenally courageous tales insightfully told in ways that the male, testosterone versions often aren’t (and that’s a good thing). So here (in no particular order) is a list of The Nine Greatest Women’s Travel and Adventure Books Ever, by or about some of the toughest, strongest most insightful explorers you’ll find. Enjoy and let us know what you think!

3. Around the World in 72 Days - By Nellie Bly Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), was better known by her pen name Nellie Bly. When Cochran first walked into Editor George Madden's office at the Pittsburgh Daily Dispatch, he assumed she was there to deliver a message for the writer he had agreed to meet that day. The Dispatch had just printed an editorial arguing women needed to be put in their place and out of the voting booth. Soon afterward someone penned a brilliantly impassioned rebuttal. Madden was so impressed that he placed an ad asking the writer to call on him. It never occurred to him that the small, grey-eyed 18-year old that now confronted him was that writer. Nor did he know that once he hired her she would become one of the most renowned and influential reporters of her time. Bly specialized in undertaking remarkably difficult assignments. In Pittsburgh her journalism prompted new child labor legislation and she spent six months as a correspondent in Mexico for the Dispatch writing about the customs of common Mexicans and the poverty they dealt with. She returned when Mexico’s dictator Porfirio Diaz threatened to jail her. Contact Us Address 2349 Railroad Street Suite 1510 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 15222 United States Email solutionspace@gmail.com Website https://vagabond-adventure.com/ Thank You Thank You