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To the Ends of the Earth: Mary Gaunt, Pioneer Traveller

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Engelsk
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Biografier

Travel writer, explorer and novelist.

'Gaunts never give up', the motto of Mary's ancestor, Prince John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was quoted by Mary's father, William Gaunt, to his children.

In the 1880s, Mary Gaunt was one of the first women admitted to Melbourne University. Miss Gaunt's desire to study law was denied since male academics believed women incapable of studying 'difficult' subjects. In 1909, Mary, now widowed, led her own expedition into the West African jungle, staying in remote villages to gather information for her book 'Alone in West Africa'. In 1913, in the absence of sealed roads, Mary travelled in a bone-shaking mule cart from Peking to the edge of the Gobi desert and returned to Europe on a Russian troop train. Her amazing experiences in China and Russia produced two more travel books. Mary donated her royalties to the Red Cross to help Belgian refugees. For many years she lived in Italy and, during World War Two, died in France.

Prelude: Outwitting Mussolini

1.'Gaunts never give up'

2. Encountering prejudice at university

3. Finding Doctor Right

4. Mary postpones a visit to China

5. Africa - the 'Dark Continent'

6. Heading a band of naked warriors

7.'Madame, you have the heart of a lion'

8.'Murder Hill' and German Togoland

9. Black magic among the Ashanti

10. The male dinosaurs of Londonís RGS

11. Through Tsarist Russia to Peking

12. Inside the walls of the Forbidden City

13. A political assassination

14. The Great Wall of China

15.'Behind every small foot is a jar of tears'

16. Chengde and the hunting palace of the Manchu

17. The temple of the Three Mountains

18.'Please keep your last bullet for yourself'

19. Last days in China

20. Exploring the Amur River and Saghalien

21. On a troop train through Siberia

22. St Petersburg and after

23. Captured by Germans

24. The Gaunts in wartime

25. The final years of a cosmopolitan author

© 2014 Pirgos Press (E-bog): 9781742984070

Release date

E-bog: 12. marts 2014

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