Lila Man Harper. Solitary Travelers...

Lila Man Harper. Solitary Travelers: Nineteenth-Century Women's Travel Narratives and the Scientific Vocation. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP/Associated University Presse 2001 277 pp ISBN 0-8386-3860-0 $4500

Lila Mrzn Harper's Solitary Travelers: Nineteenth-Century Women Travel Narratives and the Scientific Vocation focuses onward an area of interest that is commonly opening up: the study of travel writing, which is not solitary interdisciplinary, but lends itself to retrospectives upon the role played by women travelers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The