The Women Who Went Round the World

Extraordinary Stories of True Pioneers in Global Circumnavigation

Author:	Sally Smith
Published:	2024
Format:	Hardback, 256 pages
Size:	234 × 156 × 27 mm

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Pioneering women's global circumnavigations

Stories of remarkable women who circumnavigated the globe, from 18th-century voyagers to the first woman in space. Includes 50 illustrations.

'How good that the stories of these adventurous and wonderful women who made extraordinary journeys around the world have now come to light.' – Dame Joanna Lumley

Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake, Captain Cook – the men who went round the world are household names.

But what about the women?

The Women Who Went Round the World sets the record straight, telling the stories of pioneering women and their extraordinary journeys around the globe. From sleeping with freshly cut heads in Sarawak to travelling through Siberia in the luggage cart of a rickety train, from welcoming an Aboriginal Australian into an eighteenth-century London home to being chased by a jeering mob in rural China, these are the tales of the remarkable women who've been missing from the history books … until now.

About the Author

Sally Smith is a journalist and writer whose love of life has combined adventurous activities with an impressive career. At 23, she was appointed a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail and spent time in the far east including Hong Kong and Japan. She went on to work for the BBC News in the UK, for ABC News in Australia; was named Business Writer of the Year and was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship. She has had books published by Michael Joseph, Rigby Books and The History Press.

Praise for The Women Who Went Round the World

'This collection of groundbreaking women is fantastically entertaining.'
– All About History

'Sally Smith's The Women Who Went Round the World is a fast-paced read from the very start to the finish line. She is to be commended for her selection of distinctive stories which illustrate the various means by which these intrepid women made this journey whether on bicycle or in by sea, braving danger from rogue waves or from strangers. But, furthermore, the book considers the implication of these women's achievements, poignantly expressed in the image of the lone woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, who contemplates the future of mankind as she views the Earth through her window.'
– Emelyne Godfrey, author of Mrs Pankhurst's Bodyguard