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100 1 _aPfeiffer, Ida,
_d1797-1858
240 1 5 _aEine Frauenfahrt um die Welt. French
245 1 0 _aVoyage d'une femme autour du monde
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-15
508 _aChuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Voyage d'une femme autour du monde" by Ida Pfeiffer is a travelogue written in the mid-19th century. It chronicles a resolute Austrian woman’s circumnavigation and observations of distant lands, peoples, and natural phenomena in a plain, factual style. Expect practical details of seafaring life, candid social commentary—including on slavery and colonial society—and vivid descriptions of ports and landscapes. The opening of the travelogue presents a brief biographical portrait celebrating the traveler’s courage, earlier journeys, and modesty (echoed by Humboldt’s praise), followed by a preface that vows simple, truthful reporting. She departs Austria for Hamburg, waits for a companion, then sails on a Danish brig toward Brazil, contrasting steamships with sailing vessels and giving brisk, practical advice on provisions, cramped cabins, and onboard routines. The narrative lingers on the slow progress down the Elbe and through the Channel, calms and tempests, phosphorescent seas, flying fish, and a captured Portuguese man-of-war, then the equator crossing without theatrics and sudden squalls (vamperos) before the spectacular arrival in Rio’s bay. It then turns to first impressions of Rio de Janeiro: modest architecture save for an imposing aqueduct, dirty markets and streets, the pervasive presence and policing of enslaved Black laborers, remarks on slavery’s practice, and quick sketches of the city’s arts and public religious festivities attended by the youthful imperial couple. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Lirairie de L. Hachette et cie, 1858
653 _aVoyages around the world
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89009174384&seq=9
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77239
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