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This is a big improvement over my last attempt at reading a history of women travelers, but it still has a slightly superficial feel.
— Jul 03, 2011 08:15AM
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Donna
is on page 120 of 224
The author writes that Jean Baret's unmasking as a woman meant the sailors "no longer treated her as one of the guys." Wow. The Baret info is sourced to a 1866 book that probably didn't include the accounts that Baret was brutally assaulted by her shipmates, but reading that part was awkward all the same.
— Jul 04, 2011 09:55PM
Donna
is on page 82 of 224
The author just namedropped someone in context of another traveler's statement about her, without giving any context or info on the first woman at all. Wikipedia tells me she was an opera singer, but what's the point of including someone else's opinion on her if we will never be told by the author why that's significant?
— Jul 03, 2011 11:10AM
