Eine Frau fährt um die Welt

The diaries of the world trip, presented here in a revised version, were published in 1850 under the title 'A Woman's Journey Around the World' and became a bestseller. Ida Pfeiffer had thus established her reputation as a world traveller, and Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Ritter also appreciated her for her achievements. Texts of compelling charm. A woman of the Biedermeier era and by no means emancipated in today's sense, her judgements were often biased in their time, but she was never full of prejudice. She was a brave, never larmoyant woman, overwhelming in her never flagging thirst for knowledge.' Die Zeit.