Books like Africa to me by Emily Hahn

Henry Miller’s debut novel follows a lyrical, autobiographical monologue in which he recounts his early 1930s Parisian life, exploring sex, human behavior and bohemian culture with frankness and poetic intensity.

Beryl Markham's memoir chronicles her daring career as a pioneering woman aviator and lecturer in East Africa, blending biography, travel description, and reflections on aerial exploration.

A compilation of travel essays and personal narratives exploring alternative lifestyles and women's experiences on the road.

"According to the 1747 publication The Art of Governing a Wife, women in Georgian England were to "lay up and save, look to the house; talk to few and take of all within." However, some women broke from these directives and took up the distinctly male privilege of traveling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit, and body.". "For many the Grand Tour - often under taken in great parades of coaches laden with servants, trunks, and furniture - became an intellectual and romantic rite of passage. The landscape, health spas, salons, and social scene of Enlightenment Europe provided a wealth of glamorous, revolutionary, and therapeutic experiences from which many ladies returned "the best informed and most perfect creatures."". "Brian Dolan leads us into the hearts and minds of the ladies through their stories, thoughts, and court gossip, recorded in journals, letters, and diaries. Ladies of the Grand Tour creates a mesmerizing portrait of a previously overlooked slice of eighteenth-century life."--BOOK JACKET.

"One woman's moving story of personal tragedy, indomitable courage, and undying love for Africa, its wildlife and its people."--Cover.