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Explorer

by Schiffer Liesel.

Their names Ida, Fanny, Alex, Karen, Emily, Rosie and Margaret, are European or American origins but most often preferred bitten by the love of travel and also one of the adventure: geographical, archaeological, ethnological, entomological, loving, sometimes together! All are distinguished by a strong character in the days of crinolines of Queen Victoria and later that same bell caps of the Roaring Twenties, where he did not yet good be an independent woman, zany freedom of movement, freedom at all ... Even though most remain steeped in colonialist principles shared by the majority of their contemporaries, each showing a genuine curiosity about the other, an appreciation the different landscapes, empathy for other cultures and peoples called "native", seen from the "developed" world ...

ago Daisy Bates, Irish orphan mysteriously stranded in Australia who invents an aristocratic past and finds its place among the Aborigines for which she plays the nurses, educators, anthropologists and even judges. And also the famous Alexandra David-Neel in search of spirituality and awareness of Tibet in a legend or Isabelle Eberhardt who gets lost in southern Algeria by force to navigate between the dredge in the souks of the Arab city, ecstasy Sufi mystic or the far less prestigious, alcohol in large doses, to the point of neglecting his talents pen. Not to mention Gertrude Bell, English friend of the Bedouin tribes, Colonel Lawrence and King Faisal of Iraq, the Caribbean Mary Seacole who discovers his talents as a nurse at the Crimean War, Britain and tongue-in-cheek Mary Kingsley who laughs at herself when she entertains the villagers watching the dangerous crossing by canoe rapids Ogooué in Gabon. Or Emily Hahn, an American who did not have cold feet since the 1930s, she became the concubine of the Chinese poet Sinmay Zau refugee in Japan with him, she tasted the pleasure of opium dangerous ... Despite their allure "Mary Poppins", one begins to dream and follow those thirty adventurers of the past throughout the globe, with the motto, that of one of them, Freya Stark, passionate Middle East: "The real vagrant, one whose trips are made for happiness, do not travel to flee but to seek. "

They have conquered the world, the great adventurers 1850-1950. Alexandra Lapierre, Christel Mouchard Arthaud, collection "Classics Illustrated", Paris, 2007.