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The First Female Travel Writer Ida Pfeiffer (1797–1858)
The First Female Travel Writer Ida Pfeiffer: Her book, Eine Reise einer Wienerin in das Heilige Land (Travels of a Vienna Woman in the Holy Land), was a blockbuster when it was published in 1844, and Pfeiffer was confident she had finally found her vocation. She was 47 years old.