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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Paperback with noticeably faded spine. Pages are clean and tight throughout. T. Used.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Paperback with slightly faded spine. Pages are clean, binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. T. Used.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 341 pages; Description: 341 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Women social reformers --India. Women missionaries & Philanthropists --India. Summary: In the 30 years following 1857 a wealth of material written by women on India emerged. This anthology illustrates the progression of imperialist and feminist attitudes and includes the writings of Josephine Butler, Millicent Fawcet, Dorothea Beale, Mary Carpenter, Flora Annie Steel, Annette Ackroyd Beveridge, Florence Nightingale, Harriet Martineau and Annie Besant. These texts include evaluations of Indian social history and Indian women, while on a different level they provide an insight into the perspectives and cultural backgrounds of the writers themselves. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. This is a Fine Copy of this book in black cloth with bright and sharp gilt title lettering to spine,in a Fine Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped.This copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness and there is NO leaning or rolling to spine.8vo 266pp First Edition 1st Impression [2003].

Soft Cover. Zustand: Good +. 1st Edition. Paperback. 189pp. 1st edition 1990. Spine faded, covers a little marked. A decent copy. (q7).

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition edition. 224 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Large hardback in dustwrapper. 33 × 24.5cm, 368pp. The Arcadian Library in London holds one of the finest collections of writing by Western women travelling to the East. The books and manuscripts cover almost four centuries of travel and range from Mary Wortley Montagu's incomparable early eighteenth-century 'Turkish' letters to the publications of twentieth-century archaeologists, journalists, diplomatic wives and flamboyant adventurers. The best-known - for example Harriet Martineau, Lady Florentia Sale, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, Gertrude Bell and Lady Anne Blunt - are represented, alongside lesser-known European travellers such as the early Victorian writer Julia Pardoe and the Belgian-born Italian nationalist, Carla Serena. The feminist Mary Astell, on reading Mary Wortley Montagu's manuscript, commented that women could 'travel to better purpose' than men and could provide more accurate accounts of their cultural encounters. This book examines the question of whether or not women's writings reflect a special 'female gaze' and discusses the style and content of women's writing about the East and the ways in which writers negotiated and adapted their narratives to conform to their readers' expectations while often, at the same time, challenging contemporary gender roles. The subject matter is wide-ranging and eclectic. The writers' interests and opinions reflect their own cultural backgrounds but extend from conformist and unsympathetic to adventurous, subversive and open-minded. Often they were more able than male travellers to observe and appreciate cultural difference and they recorded their impressions with enthusiasm and genuine understanding. Many women travellers were also talented artists and their sketches, watercolours and photographs, reproduced extensively in this richly illustrated book, illuminate much of their writing. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with just a little light wear to the wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 368 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 33 cm. Contents: Introduction ; 1. 'The Most Excellent Talents': Eighteenth-Century Journeys to the Seraglio ; 2. Beyond Istanbul: Desert Journeys and the Overland Route to India ; 3. From Kabul to the Crimea: Women, War and the 'Great Game' ; 4. 'Shaped by the East': Feminists and Revolutionaries in the mid-Nineteenth Century ; 5. The Queen's Daughters: Finding a Female Voice in the Age of Imperialism ; 6. Shifting Identities: Politics and Adventure on the Borderlands of Empire ; 7. Dancing to the Dig: Women and Archaeology before the First World War ; 8. Arabia Deserta: the Najd Journeys of Lady Anne Blunt and Gertrude Bell.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 368 pages. 13.25x10.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

London: India Office. 1979. 4to. Original illustrated paperback; pp. xix, [3], 188, [12, plates and index]; wrappers a little rubbed; from the library of Louisa Montague-Jones, with her ownership inscription and 1980 invoice for the book stapled to the inside of front cover, a few underlinings in her hand.Very rare first edition, from the library of the American lady who pioneered Western tourism in the Gulf region in the 1970s. Indispensable for the historian and researcher of the region, this work details the political presence of the British Empire in the 19th and 20th century, and where to locate the relevant documents.