A VISIT TO THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT AND ITALY by Madame Ida Pfeiffer 1852

A VISIT TO THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT AND ITALY

by Madame Ida Pfeiffer

Ingram Cooke & Co, London 1852.

Inbunden i gott skick för sin ålder, mindre bruksspår på den vackra pärmen och på inlagan. En ex-librislapp.

The first English edition was published only a year before in 1852. Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian explorer, one of the first female travellers, who travelled through Southern Asia, Americas, Middle East, and Africa, and also concluded two trips around the world.

Her bestselling journals were translated into seven languages. This travel journal explores Egypt, Italy, and the Holy Land with much vividness and insight. Illustrated with eight coloured plates.

I had for years cherished the wish to undertake a journey to the Holy Land; years are, indeed, required to familiarise one with the idea of so hazardous an enterprise. When, therefore, my domestic arrangements at length admitted of my absence for at least a year, my chief employment was to prepare myself for this journey. I read many works bearing on the subject, and was moreover fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of a gentleman who had travelled in the Holy Land some years before. I was thus enabled to gain much oral information and advice respecting the means of prosecuting my dangerous pilgrimage. My friends and relations attempted in vain to turn me from my purpose by painting, in the most glowing colours, all the dangers and difficulties which await the traveller in those regions. “Men,” they said, “were obliged gravely to consider if they had physical strength to endure the fatigues of such a journey, and strength of mind bravely to face the dangers of the plague, the climate, the attacks of insects, bad diet, etc. And to think of a woman’s venturing alone, without protection of any kind, into the wide world, across sea and mountain and plain,—it was quite preposterous.” This was the opinion of my friends.
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