Jennifer Jenkins Wood isassociate professor of Spanish at Scripps College.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on TranslationsAcknowledgments Introduction to the History of Spanish Women TravelersAn Overview of Gender and Travel Writing OneCecilia Böhl de Faber (b. 1796 Morges, Switzerland—d. 1877, Sevilla): On the Therapeutic Value of TravelTwoCarolina Coronado (b. Almendralejo, 1820?-d. Lisbon, 1911): A Melancholy Traveler ThreeEmilia Serrano, the Baronesa de Wilson (b. Granada, 1833?—d. Barcelona, 1923): The Bard of the Americas FourRosario de Acuña (b. Madrid, 1850?-d. Gijón, 1923): Spanish Mountain Landscapes FiveEmilia Pardo Bazán (b. La Coruña,1851-d. Madrid, 1921): Discovering Spain and her Place in the World at the Turn of the Century SixEva Canel (b. Coana [Asturias], 1857—d. Havana, Cuba, 1932): A Spanish Patriot in the Americas SevenSofia Pérez de Casanova (b. 1861 or 1862, Almeiras [Galicia], Spain—d. 1958, Poznan, Poland): Poland and Russia through Spanish Eyes Eight Princess María Eulalia de Borbón (Madrid, 1864-Fuenterrabía, 1958): A Spanish Princess in theAmericasNineMaría de la Paz Borbón, Princess of Spain and Princess of Bavaria (b. Madrid, 1862 -- d. Munich, 1946): A Royal PilgrimTenCarmen de Burgos Seguí (b. Almería, 1867?-d. Madrid, 1932): World Traveler and First Spanish Woman War CorrespondentElevenSpanish Missionary Nuns in Africa: The First Voyage of the Conceptionist Sisters to Fernando Po (Spanish Guinea), 1884-1885BibliographyPrimary sources Secondary sources About the AuthorIndex

In this superbly researched investigation, Wood examines 11 Spanish women who traveled during a time when travel was facilitated by ever-improving transportation but was not so easy that it led to mass tourism. The author's subjects are on Cecilia Böhl de Faber (pseudonym Fernán Caballero), Carolina Coronado, Emilia Serrano, Rosario de Acuña, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Eva Canel, Sofía Casanova, Princesses Paz and Eulalia de Borbón, Carmen de Burgos (known as Colombine), and Mother María de Jesús Güell. Wood achieves her goal of acquainting English-speaking readers with these women and their travel narratives by offering translated excerpts of their works, contextualized within a framework of relevant biographical information and accompanied by an image of each traveler. With this volume Wood makes a solid contribution to not only the study of travel literature but also the fields of women's studies, history, and anthropology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.