A house, a home, a nation : Mariquita Sánchez's Recuerdos del Buenos Ayres virreynal -- Queen of the interior : Lina Beck-Bernard's Le rio Parana -- Eduarda Mansilla de García's Recuerdos de viaje : " recordar es vivir" -- Interlude in the frontier : Lady Florence Dixie's Across Patagonia -- Traveling/teaching/writing : Jennie Howard's In distant climes and other years -- Traveler/governess/expatriate : Emma de la Barra's Stella -- Globe-trotting single women -- The spiritual trip : Delfina Bunge de Gálvez's Tierras del mar azul
Summary
''Tells a compelling story about an almost unknown body of work--Argentine womens travel narratives--and also provokes the reader to think more deeply about the intersection between learning about ones country and learning about oneself.''-- Debra A
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index