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The Journal of Madame Giovanni is the intriguing story of a young and beautiful French woman who in the 1850s, when women were still regarded as merely household decorations, travelled to little known parts of the world and recorded the exoticisms lying beyond the rim of... Read Full Overview

This book contains a historic travelogue diary written by a wealthy French woman in the mid-nineteenth century. It is edited by Alexandre Dumas, and translated by Marguerite E. Wilbur. This fantastically detailed and vivid chronicle describes Madame Giovanni's exotic travels... Read Full Overview