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Victorian lady travellers aren’t feminist role models – they were tyrants

30 March 2019

9:00 AM

30 March 2019

9:00 AM

They cut virgin paths through tropical forests, paddled dugout canoes over West African rapids, sailed along the Yangtze in a sampan, climbed the Rocky Mountains with a gun-toting guide, galloped across the Iraqi desert in search of sheikhs, slept under the stars and ate a lot of snake.

It’s easy to be seduced by the exploits of the Victorian women travellers.

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