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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Sport
Produktart: Reiseführer
Region: Südamerika
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788027382477
ISBN-10: 8027382475
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dixie, Florence
Hersteller: e-artnow
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: e-artnow s.r.o., Za Sidlistem 22, ?-143 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 6 mm
Von/Mit: Florence Dixie
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,148 kg
Artikel-ID: 126984973