Women On Adventure is a blog by K.L. Webber exploring our rich shared history of women's adventure writing. This curated collection of quotations showcases the opinions and experiences of influential female travellers in their own words.

WOA Image: "The dark, jagged peaks that closed in the distance were just that rich, deep, incredible ultra-marine blue..."

K.L. Webber
Alpine Revels

By nine, we were on the road again, following the narrow gorge that was soon to lead us into the real world of Dolomite. The morning was now alternately bright and showery, and the dark, jagged peaks that closed in the distance were of just that rich, deep, incredible ultra-marine blue that Titian loved and painted so often in his landscape backgrounds.

Longarone, Italy, 1872

 

Source: Amelia B. Edwards, Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys, London: Longman’s, Green & Co., 1873 

Further links: 

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/edwards/peaks/peaks.html

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/edwards/edwards.html

https://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Edwards_Amelia%20Blanford.pdf

http://www.ees.ac.uk/news/index/256.html

https://blog.oup.com/2015/06/amelia-edwards-archaeologist/

http://www.italy-tours-in-nature.com/northern-dolomites.html

 

 

 

 

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