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A Woman's Journey Round the World

Ida Pfeiffer

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A Woman's Journey Round the World

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Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. "The Woman's Journey Around the World, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor" is the travel diary of the first of her two trips "around the world", following her successful trips to the Holy Land and to Iceland.
l for the parents to carry the little coffin to the churchyard themselves, followed by the relations with the brandy bottle in their hands, and giving vent to their joy in the most outrageous manner.

A merchant told me that one of his friends, who holds a judicial appointment, had, a short time previous, been called to decide a curious case.  A grave-digger was carrying one of these deceased angels to the churchyard, when he stept into a tavern to take a dram.  The landlord inquired what he had got under his poncho, and on learning that it was an angelito, offered him two reaux for it.  The gravedigger consented; the landlord quickly arranged a niche with flowers in the drinking-room, and then hastened to inform the whole neighbourhood what a treasure he had got.  They all came, admired the little angel, and drank and feasted in its honour.  But the parents also soon heard of it, hurried down to the tavern, took away their child, and had the landlord brought before the magistrate.  On hearing the case, the latter could scarcely restrain from laughing, but arranged the matter amicably, as such a crime was not mentioned in the statute book.

The manner in which patients are conveyed to the hospital here is very remarkable.  They are placed upon a simple wooden armchair, with one band fastened in front of them to prevent their falling off, and another beneath for them to place their feet on—a most horrible sight when the sick person is so weak that he can no longer hold himself in an upright posture.

I was not a little astonished on hearing that, in this country, where there is yet no post, or, indeed, any regular means of conveyance from one place to another, that a railroad was about being constructed from here to Santiago.  The work has been undertaken by an English company, and the necessary measurements already begun.  As the localities are very mountainous, the railroad will have to make consi

Andrea 05/30/2024
Brace yourself: Ida Pfeiffer hates all the food and finds most foreigners ugly, but her wanderlust pushes her onward for more and more adventures that she really seems to enjoy. As a traveler myself I really appreciated reading a first-person account of her travels. I highly recommend complementing
Chris 10/09/2023
Amazing, to meet princes as you travel in far flung places before the motorcar was invented. So much to discover and on sailing vessels too.
Ted 06/08/2022
Written more than 175 years ago in a very different world from the present. As a reader, you have to adjust for that and withhold judgement. Otherwise, I enjoyed her adventures and her comments on the people she met and the places she visited. She comes across as inquisitive, energetic and forthrigh
John 02/03/2016
Fascinating. She may be a tad racist for modern audiences, but otherwise her observations are droll and spot-on. Worthy reading, especially during travel. Will look up some of her other travel writing.
Leslie 01/19/2016
I loved this sensitive and observant German woman's memoirs of travelling on her own around the Middle East in the mid-19th century. She sounds like a contemporary woman, her language and worldview is not dated in the least, which I find remarkable. She is up for anything, can take a lot of discomfo
Lorelei 08/14/2014
What an amazing journey that was. I think the - to us - historical perspective is fascinating. What she did, and what she went through are almost beyond my imagining in this world of fast planes and instantaneous communication. I thought it was a lot of fun to read, but I suspect it isn't to everybo

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