Flora Tristán

The Fallen Aristocrat who Became one of the First Feminists

When Flora Tristán leaves Paris for Peru, her father’s country, in 1833, she does not know that the heritage she’d come to claim would lead her to a very different path. How did the daughter of a Peruvian aristocrat and self-proclaimed “pariah” become one of the first feminist and socialist militant? 

Isabelle Eberhardt

The cross-dressing aristocrat who became a nomad

If there is one word to summarize Isabelle Eberhardt’s life it would be: fate.

The illegitimate daughter of an exiled aristocrat led her life as she saw fit, traveled widely in the Maghreb, wrote about it, dressed sometimes as a man (and also took a male pen name) to bypass the limitation of her gender and converted to Islam to be accepted by the Arab population she had grown to love. All of this, at the turn of the 20th Century. 

Ida Pfeiffer

A daring woman

This 19th century Austrian traveler became an iconic figure in exploration at the time. She started traveling around the age of 50 and made 2 world tours.

Her first trip lasted 3 years: Palestine, Brazil, Cape Horn, Tahiti, Singapore, India, Persian Gulf, Malaysia, Indonesia … From her writings, we come across her look on the different countries covered.

Mary Seacole

A unique nurse and a fearless traveler

Mary Seacole is the story of a Jamaican woman who travels the world to reach the poor and the sick. Two centuries ago, a small piece of fearless woman defied the social laws and the prevailing racism of the time to do remarkable things.