THE GIRLS' ROOM!!! Women Travelers and Adventurers: Reading Suggestions

[AD64]

One of my heroines too, Queen. Thanks for sharing. 

Did you hear the news that they might have actually found a piece of the plane, after all these years?

 

[Queen]

I'd heard that, seems like maybe time and tide are finally offering up a glimpse at the truth behind the mystery.  Very exciting.

 

[TrainChaser]

This book isn't about voluntary travel, per se, but she traveled on foot (with only one shoe), through the Peruvian jungle after the airliner she was in was struck by lightning and broke apart at 10,000 feet.  She was still strapped in her seat when she hit the ground, and her worst injury was a broken collarbone.  Her father had told her that if she ever got lost in the jungle and could find a river, to follow it downstream (most likely to find civilization).  This is what she did -- for eleven days -- when she came to a woodcutter's hut.  The men put her in their boat and took her to a local mission further down the river, from which she was flown to a hospital.  She was 17 years old.

When I Fell from the Sky, by Juliane Koepcke
https://www.amazon.com/When-Fell-Sk...d=1496076930&sr=1-1&keywords=koepcke,+juliane

 

[LouiseE]

Anything by Isabella Bird, one of those Victorian/Edwardian lady travellers, is interesting. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a good one to start with, or The Englishwoman in America (I think there are free Kindle versions of both), but she really went all over the world. Remarkable woman!