Greatest Books from Women's Travel Journals (Grapevine edition)

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 and South African Memories are among the Greatest Books from Womens Travel Journals included in this set. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - This 1857 autobiography was written by a Jamaican woman whose notoriety during the Crimean War rivalled Florence Nightingales. Racism and rejection met Seacoles offer to assist as a nurse in the conflict. Unfazed Seacole travelled to the Crimea on her own running the British Hotel while serving as a doctor and mother to injured soldiers. She provides detailed tales of how she dealt with illness bombardment and other challenges at the Crimean battlefront as a witness to important engagements. Sara Salih skillfully dissects the rhetorical difficulties of Seacoles work in the introduction to the much-welcomed Penguin edition in order to investigate the depth of her narrative. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 - Academicians and intellectuals have regarded this book as having significant literary worth. This contributes to the body of knowledge for upcoming generations. We have reproduced this book in print form in order to preserve the integrity of its original publication and ensure that it is never forgotten. Therefore any markings or annotations are there on purpose to maintain the objects original state. The 1824 publication of Maria Grahams voyage journal is now available in a scholarly edition under the title MARIA GRAHAMS JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO BRAZIL. Graham offers a priceless first-hand description of Brazil and its transition from a Portuguese colony to an independent country. Graham is one of just a handful of female travellers to have written about her adventures in South America in the early nineteenth century. She provides insights on Brazilian slavery at a time of increased abolitionist activism in addition to observations about social customs politics and the role of the British in South America. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front - The first year of the Western Front conflict Since the Crimean War in the middle of the nineteenth century when Florence Nightingale and her nurses cared for injured men who could hardly believe that her presence was not otherworldly the level of medical and nursing treatment accessible to British soldiers on campaign had enormously improved. The reader is brought along with the author of this book in the early stages of the conflict and through the pages of her diary we follow her experiences on the Western Front as she provided first aid to the wounded during the fighting that lasted until the middle of 1915 from the Aisne offensive to the First Battle of Ypres. When Alfred Harmsworth hired Lady Sarah Wilson to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Second Boer War in 1899 she became one of the first women war correspondents. Lady Sarah Wilson was born Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill (4 July 1865 – 22 October 1929). South African Memories - This book has been hailed as a classic and endured through the ages. Academicians and intellectuals have regarded the book as having significant literary worth. This contributes to the body of knowledge for upcoming generations.