Barbara Hodgson Knihy

Barbara Hodgson traces three hundred years of world travel by both the celebrated and the unknown women who endured exotic diseases, scorching heat, bed bugs, destructive thunderstorms, plagues of scorpions and many other life-threatening situations -- all in the name of adventure. From Lady Ann Fanshawe, who disguised herself as a cabin boy to confront a band of Spanish pirates, to Isabella Bird, who traversed the muddy trails of Japan by horseback despite severe back pain, the women profiled in these pages sacrificed personal comfort and respectability to pursue exotic experiences that had traditionally been open only to men. Filled with fascinating portraits, historical maps and intricate drawings, No Place for a Lady is at once a beautifully illustrated exploration of early travel and a spirited celebration of the women who dared to redefine the proper place for a lady.

In the spring of 1914, a restless young man leaves England for a tour of the exotic east. A bit of Egypt, a glimpse of Syria, a nod to Constantinople -- that's all that was supposed to happen. Instead, Julian Beaufort becomes mesmerized. Wandering in idle admiration through the labyrinthine streets of Damascus, he stumbles upon Bait Katib, a house that takes possession of his heart. It is elegant; it is ancient; and it is, after a bit of negotiation with the owner, his. He has every intention of staying there for the rest of his life. But the world doesn't relinquish its hold so easily. Two bloody wars -- one in Europe and one in Syria -- leave Julian wounded and the city of Damascus in ruins. He returns from battle to find his precious house still standing, but no longer entirely his. It seems someone else may be occupying the shadows of Bait Katib. A mystery, a love story, and a journey to a sepia-toned past, Barbara Hodgson's new illustrated novel will haunt and delight her many devoted readers and tempt legions more to take a guided journey into another world.

Helen Martin is a scholar of antique anatomial illustration. She knows the human body inside and out. But she doesn't know her own body anymore, because Helen is, quite literally, losing her senses. Sight, hearing, touch, small, taste; all are disappearing. And she has started hallucinating -- for surely it is a hallucination -- that her body is being replaced, piece by piece, with someone else's. Her husband, too, seems to be lost; vanished during a business trip in Europe.Things grow more curious when Henen sets off to find him. On the night train to Vienna, mysteries proliferate. A parade of characters -- from the grotesque to the jolly to the inexplicable -- present her with bizarre gifts, gossip, rumor. Much of her unaccountable experience Helen is prepared to attribute to jet lag and a nasty head cold, until a gruesome murder at an anatomical museum alerts her to the fact that someone is taking her visit very seriously indeed.

Während einer Marokko-Reise entdeckt Lydia auf ihrer Hand eine merkwürdige Hautveränderung, die einer Landkarte ähnelt. Kurz darauf verschwindet sie spurlos. Nach langer, vergeblicher Suche entdeckt ihr Reisebegleiter Christopher eine kaum glaubhafte Spur.

'Mit dem Buch, das Barbara Hodgson sorgfältig recherchiert, reich bebildert und. schön gestaltet hat, ist ihr etwas Seltenes gelungen. Ein origineller Beitrag zur Geschichte weiblichen Abenteurertums.' WDR Befreit vom Korsett gesellschaftlicher Konventionen in ihren Heimatländern, suchten Generationen von Frauen auf ihren Orientreisen nach Freiheit. Frauen wie Lady Mary Montagu, Ida Pfeiffer, Ida von Hahn-Hahn, Gertrude Bell, Louisa Jebb oder Rosita Forbes trotzten auf ihren Reisen ins ferne Morgenland lauernden Gefahren und verbreiteten Vorurteilen. Barbara Hodgson erzählt hier humorvoll und mitreißend von Frauen, die an Karawanen durch noch unerforschte Wüsten teilnahmen, gegen schwierigste Reisebedingungen kämpften und ihre Krinolinen gegen Männerkleidung oder Türkengewand eintauschten.