by Mary Morris
A drive of several hours over the plains brought us to Greeley, and a few hours later, in the far blue distance, the Rocky Mountains, and all that they enclose, went down below the prairie sea.
* Some months later “Mountain Jim” [Nugent] fell by Evans’s hand, shot from Evans’s doorstep while riding past his cabin. The story of the previous weeks is dark, sad, and evil. Of the five differing versions which have been written to me of the act itself and its immediate causes, it is best to give none. The tragedy is too painful to dwell upon. “Jim” lived long enough to give his own statement, and to appeal to the judgment of God, but died in low delirium before the case reached a human tribunal.
* This was a truly unfortunate introduction. It was the first link in the chain of circumstances which brought about Mr. Nugent’s untimely end, and it was at this person’s instigation (when overcome by fear) that Evans fired the shot which proved fatal.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors are grateful to Katherine Wittemore, Glen Hartley, Joan Goodman, Michael Kowaleski, Justin Kaplan, Ihab Hassan, and John Theakstone for their contributions to the bibliography. Many other people helped expand the bibliography by providing us with names of women travelers. Others sent us their bibliographies outright. In some cases, rare old and fragile books were loaned; and photocopies of out-of-print books and manuscripts, as in the case of Willa Cather, were graciously sent.
We are grateful to each and every one who shared with us his or her lists, unknown or “lost” favorite writer, or out-of-print book. We are especially grateful to Jenna Laslocky at Vintage, who responded so positively to our initial concept and whose knowledge and love of travel literature did so much to help shape this book.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Mary Morris is the author of seven books, including two travel memoirs—Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone and Wall-to-Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail. Her most recent novel, A Mother’s Love, was published by Doubleday in 1993.
Larry O’Connor is a Canadian journalist and writer. His essays about travel, politics, and gender issues have appeared in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and New Woman, among other publications. He is currently completing a memoir about growing up in Canada, entitled The Tip of the Iceberg: Visions of the North.
Mary Morris and Larry O’Connor have traveled extensively throughout the world—both alone and together. They are married and live in Brooklyn, New York, with their six-year-old daughter.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Curtis Brown & John Farquharson: Excerpt from Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West, copyright © 1926 by Vita Sackville-West. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, London, on behalf of the author’s estate.
Eleanor Clark: Excerpt from Tamrart: 13 Days in the Sahara by Eleanor Clark (New York: Atheneum, 1982). Reprinted by permission of the author.
William Collins: Excerpt from Love Among the Butterflies by Margaret Fountaine (London: William Collins, 1980). Reprinted by permission of William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Limited.
Christina Dodwell: Excerpt from Travels with Fortune: An African Adventure by Christina Dodwell (London: W. H. Allen/Virgin Publishing, 1979). Reprinted by permission of the author.
Doubleday: Excerpt from Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail by Mary Morris, copyright © 1991 by Mary Morris. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.: “In Bogota” from The White Album by Joan Didion, copyright © 1979 by Joan Didion. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press: Excerpt from Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, copyright © 1989 by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison; excerpt from A Season of Stones: Living in a Palestinian Village by Helen Winternitz, copyright © 1990 by Helen Winternitz. Reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press.
Harcourt Brace & Company: Excerpts from The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company.
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.: Excerpt from My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel, copyright © 1927 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., copyright renewed 1955 by Alexandra David-Neel; “The Big Smoke” from Times and Places by Emily Hahn, copyright © 1937, 1938, 1940, 1946, 1950, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970 by Emily Hahn (originally published in The New Yorker); excerpt from pages 20-29 from Nine Pounds of Luggage by Maud Parrish, copyright © 1939 by Maud Parrish; “The Deer at Providencia” from Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard, copyright © 1982 by Annie Dillard. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
Jean Hawkes: Excerpt from Peregrinations of a Pariah by Flora Tristan, translated by Jean Hawkes (Boston: Virago, 1987). Reprinted by permission of Jean Hawkes.
David Higham Associates: Excerpt from The Cruel Way by Ella Maillart (Boston: Virago, 1987); excerpt from Farewell Spain by Kate O’Brien (Boston: Virago, 1987). Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Hodder & Stoughton Limited: Excerpt from The Gobi Desert by Mildred Cable and Francesca French. Reprinted by permission.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: Excerpt from Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey by Willa Cather, copyright © 1956 by the Executors of the Estate of Willa Cather. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
William Morrow & Company, Inc.: Excerpt from A Way of Seeing by Margaret Mead, copyright © 1970 by Margaret Mead. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow & Company, Inc.
John Murray (Publishers) Ltd.: Excerpt from A Winter in Arabia by Freya Stark; excerpt from Through Persia in Disguise by Sarah Hobhouse. Reprinted by permission of John Murray (Publishers) Ltd.
North Point Press: Chapter XVII, “I May Have to Shoot Him” from West with the Night by Beryl Markham, copyright © 1942, 1983 by Beryl Markham. Reprinted by permission of North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: Excerpt from The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism by Robin Morgan, copyright © 1989 by Robin Morgan. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
The Overlook Press: Excerpt from Muddling Through in Madagascar by Dervla Murphy, copyright © 1985 by Dervla Murphy. Reprinted by permission of The Overlook Press, Lewis Hollow Road, Woodstock, NY 12498.
Penguin Books Ltd.: “Andalucian Shore” from Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal by Rose Macauley (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949), copyright © 1973 by Constance Babington Smith. Reprinted by permission of Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, a division of Penguin Books Ltd.
Prentice Hall Press: Excerpt from Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon by M.F.K. Fisher, copyright © 1991 by M.F.K. Fisher. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Prentice Hall Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.
Random House, Inc.: Excerpt from Russian Journal by Andrea Lee, copyright © 1979, 1980, 1981 by Andrea Lee; excerpt from The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip, copyright © 1989 by Leila Philip. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. and The Rungstedlund Foundation: Excerpt from Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, copyright © 1937 by Random House, Inc., copyright renewed 1965 by Rungstedlundfondan. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. and The Rungstedlund Foundation.
Reed International Books: Excerpt from Speak to the Earth by Vivienne De Wattville (London: Methuen, 1940), copyright © by the Estate of Vivienne De Wattville. Reprinted by permission of Reed International Books on behalf of Methuen London.
Sheridan House Inc.: Excerpt from Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha, as told to Dr. Ben L. Reitman (New York: Sheridan House, 1942). Reprinted by permission.
Simon & Schuster, Inc.: Excerpt from Turkish Reflections by Mary Lee Settle, copyright © 1991 by Mary Lee Settle. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Stoddart Publi
shing Co. Limited: Excerpt from Klee Wyck by Emily Carr (Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1941). Reprinted by permission of Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited.
Viking Penguin: Excerpt from Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, copyright © 1941 by Rebecca West and Atlantic Monthly, copyright renewed 1968, 1969 by Rebecca West. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.
Carol Wilson: “The Holyland Buffet” from Views of the North: An Anthology of Travel Writing by Gwendolyn MacEwen (Erin, Ontario: Descant, the Porcupine’s Quill, Inc., 1990). Reprinted by permission of the author’s family.