At the National Portrait Gallery in London there are pictures of sixty women who have pushed the boundaries of travel over the last three centuries.
Amanda Platell, herself, a seasoned traveller, finds out how much more difficult it was for women at that time to live in Turkey or trek through the Himalayas. She even tries on a corset to see whether she would have survived in the heat with a 24 inch waist! She’s joined by the curator, Clare Gittings, and the writer Dea Birkett who has a written a book for the exhibition.
Dea Birkett's book Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers is published by National Portrait Gallery, ISBN185514526X
