To Read:

I just read about two amazing women: Dervla Murphy and Isabella Bird. From different centuries, both traveled the world to places that were deemed too dangerous for such female independence. They have written about their travels and I am dying to read their books.

First of the "must-read" list:

Bird's A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

and

Murphy's Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle (1965)

Dervla Murphy

Ms. Bird