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The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer

By: Ida Pfeiffer

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The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer

By: Ida Pfeiffer

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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3375039611

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9783375039615

The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar; With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Translated by H. W. Dulcken

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By: Ida Laura Pfeiffer

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The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar; With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Translated by H. W. Dulcken

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By: Ida Laura Pfeiffer

Reproduction of the original.

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394

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3368371827

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9783368371821

A Woman'S Journey Round The World From Vienna To Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, And Asia Minor

By: Pfeiffer Ida

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A Woman'S Journey Round The World From Vienna To Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, And Asia Minor

By: Pfeiffer Ida

A Woman's Journey Round the World" with the aid of Ida Pfeiffer is an amazing travelogue that unveils the brilliant journey of a nineteenth-century Austrian explorer. Ida Pfeiffer, a girl in advance of her time, launched into an exquisite solo journey around the globe, defying societal norms and expectations of her generation. Pfeiffer's narrative takes readers on a fascinating expedition through various continents and cultures. Her adventures spanned from the distinguished islands of the South Pacific to the rugged landscapes of South America and the faraway areas of Asia. With keen observations, she vividly defined the various human beings, customs, and environments she encountered. What makes Pfeiffer's adventure particularly noteworthy is that she defied the conventions of her time, as ladies hardly ever ventured into the challenging world of exploration and journey. Her narrative isn't handiest an account of her bodily travels but also a testomony to her braveness, curiosity, and determination. "A Woman's Journey Round the World" presents a unique attitude on the 19th-century international, offering insights into the cultural diversity, herbal wonders, and societal structures of that technology. Pfeiffer's writing is marked by using its spirit of journey and her ability to transcend the limitations of her time, making her a trailblazer for ladies tourists and explorers.

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416

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9359950238

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9789359950235

Stacking the coffins

Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918–19

By: Ida Milne

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Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918–19

By: Ida Milne

The 1918–19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious disease epidemics like the corona virus COVID-19. It decimated families, silenced cities and towns as it passed through, stilled commerce, closed schools and public buildings and put normal life on hold. Sometimes it killed several members of the same family. Like COVID-19 there was no preventative vaccine for the virus, and many died from secondary bacterial pneumonia in this pre-antibiotic era. In this work, Ida Milne tells how it impacted on Ireland, during a time of war and revolution. But the stories she tells of the harrowing impact on families, and of medicine's desperate search to heal the ill, could apply to any other place in the world at the time.

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312

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Manchester University Press

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1526122723

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9781526122728

A Selected Guide to the Literature of the Flowering Plants of Mexico

By: Ida Kaplan Langman

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A Selected Guide to the Literature of the Flowering Plants of Mexico

By: Ida Kaplan Langman

This bibliography is a guide to the literature on Mexican flowering plants, beginning with the days of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century.

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1020

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512803375

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9781512803372

A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt and Italy

By: Ida Pfeiffer

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A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt and Italy

By: Ida Pfeiffer

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. I had nothing to advance in opposition to all this but my firm unchanging determination. My trust in Providence gave me calmness and strength to set my house in every respect in order. I made my will, and arranged all my worldly affairs in such a manner that, in the case of my death (an event which I considered more probable than my safe return), my family should find every thing perfectly arranged. And thus, on the 22d of March 1842, I commenced my journey from Vienna. At one o’clock in the afternoon I drove to the Kaisermühlen (Emperor’s Mills), from which place the steamboats start for Pesth. I was joyfully surprised by the presence of several of my relations and friends, who wished to say farewell once more. The parting was certainly most bitter, for the thought involuntarily obtruded itself, “Should we ever meet again in this world?” Our mournful meditations were in some degree disturbed by a loud dispute on board the vessel. At the request of a gentleman present, one of the passengers was compelled, instead of flying, as he had intended, with bag and baggage to Hungary, to return to Vienna in company of the police. It appeared he owed the gentleman 1300 florins, and had wished to abscond, but was luckily overtaken before the departure of the boat. This affair was hardly concluded when the bell rang, the wheels began to revolve, and too soon, alas, my dear ones were out of sight! I had but few fellow-passengers. The weather was indeed fine and mild; but the season was not far enough advanced to lure travellers into the wide world, excepting men of business, and those who had cosmopolitan ideas, like myself. Most of those on board were going only to Presburg, or at farthest to Pesth. The captain having mentioned that a woman was on board who intended travelling to Constantinople, I was immediately surrounded by curious gazers. A gentleman who was bound to the same port stepped forward, and offered his services in case I should ever stand in need of them; he afterwards frequently took me under his protection. The fine mild weather changed to cold and wind as we got fairly out into the great Danube. I wrapped myself in my cloak, and remained on deck, in order to see the scenery between Vienna and Presburg, which, no doubt, appears lovely enough when nature is clad in the garment of spring; but now I only saw leafless trees and fallow ground—a dreary picture of winter.

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558

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Library of Alexandria

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1465506322

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9781465506320

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The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer

The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer

The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar; With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Translated by H. W. Dulcken

The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar; With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Translated by H. W. Dulcken

A Woman'S Journey Round The World From Vienna To Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, And Asia Minor

A Woman'S Journey Round The World From Vienna To Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, And Asia Minor

Stacking the coffins

Stacking the coffins

A Selected Guide to the Literature of the Flowering Plants of Mexico

A Selected Guide to the Literature of the Flowering Plants of Mexico

A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt and Italy

A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt and Italy

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