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Save/ShareThe latest travel muse comes from beyond the grave: a Victorian lady with a cheeky style, a stern name, and practical advice. "Hints for Lady Travellers," written in 1889 by said Victorian lady (Lillias Campbell Davidson) was recently reprinted by London's Royal Geographical Society and put on sale by Amazon for about $8. It is like a hundred-plus-page finishing school, aimed at the upper class English woman traveling abroad on her own for the first time, "becoming her own unescorted and independent person, a lady traveller."
Dear old Davidson dishes out tips on boarding houses, cycling tours, and mountaineering trips. She may seem quaint in her concerns and attitude. Then again, maybe we'll look back at Anthony Bourdain and Rick Steves with similar amusement.
[Hat tip to Intelligent Life for spotting the book, and the 1889 Times of London review of the book for context.]
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