Translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken.

Translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken.

Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797 - 1858) was an Austrian traveler and author. She was one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into seven languages. Pfeiffer was an independent thinker. During the grand review held in Schonbrunn Palace, she protested against foreign occupation by turning her back as Napoleon rode past. In 1842 she traveled along the Danube River to the Black Sea and Istanbul. From there she continued to Palestine and Egypt before returning home via Italy. Pfeiffer undertook this journey by herself in a time when many men would not have ventured along...

Die hier in einer überarbeiteten Fassung vorliegenden Tagebücher der großen Weltreise Ida Pfeiffers erschienen 1850 unter dem Titel "Eine Frauenfahrt um die Welt" und wurden ein Besteller. Die Reise führt die 44-jährige Österreicherin nach Brasilien, wo sie nur knapp einem Mordanschlag entkam, über China, wo der Anblick einer weißen Frau derart ungewöhnlich war, daß sie ständig in Bedrängnis geriet, nach Ceylon. In Madras betrat sie indisches Festland, erhielt Zutritt zu Häusern reicher, vornehmer Inder, erlebte Tigerjagden und war bei einer Witwenverbrennung anwesend. Persien...

Reprint des Originals von 1846

Am 22. März 1842 bestieg Ida Pfeiffer in Wien ein Dampfschiff, ohne jemandem das wahre Ziel ihrer Reise anzuvertrauen - sie wollte das Heilige Land bereisen, gab jedoch vor, eine Freundin in Konstantinopel zu besuchen. Freunden und Verwandten schien selbst diese Idee äußerst gewagt. Tatsächlich war es ein Aufbruch ins Ungewisse: Mit äußerst geringen finanziellen Mitteln sollte sie, als Frau alleine, Gebiete durchstreifen, die von der Pest heimgesucht waren und in denen politische Unruhen das Reisen unsicher und gefährlich machten.

Ida Laura Pfeiffer (October 14, 1797 in Vienna - October 27, 1858 Vienna), was an Austrian traveler and travel book author. She was one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into seven languages. She was a member of geographical societies of both Berlin and Paris. After her sons had homes of their own, Ida Pfeiffer was finally able to fulfill her childhood dream of traveling to foreign places. In 1846 she started on a journey round the world, visiting Brazil, Chile and other countries of South America, Tahiti, China, India, Persia, Asia Minor and Greece, and...

The success which attended the publication in this Series of Illustrated Works of A Woman's Journey round the World, has induced the publication of the present volume on a country so little known as Iceland, and about which so little recent information exists. The translation has been carefully made, expressly for this Series, from the original work published at Vienna; and the Editor has added a great many notes, wherever they seemed necessary to elucidate the text. In addition to the matter which appeared in the original work, the present volume contains a translation of a valuable Essay on...