{"id":706,"date":"2025-02-28T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T05:11:13","slug":"waiting-for-march-8-7-women-who-made-travel-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontegaiatour.it\/en\/blog\/waiting-for-march-8-7-women-who-made-travel-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for March 8: 7 women who made travel history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

History books tell the tales of intrepid explorers, historians, sailors, and scholars who circumnavigated straits, discovered unknown lands, and bravely ventured beyond the known world, pointing their compass toward the unknown to land in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, microhistory tells us that in the vast ocean of discoveries, hidden in the folds of time, there are also women.<\/strong> Explorers, botanists, travelers, aviators, who fought to pursue their desire to push beyond geographical, cultural, and social boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We present 7 of them who we are sure you\u2019ll love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nellie Bly and the world tour (1864-1922)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nellie Bly was an American journalist, passionate about investigative journalism, who managed to travel around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds<\/strong>, emulating Phileas Fogg, the Around the World in 80 Days main character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the age of 24, she proposed to her publisher to attempt this feat. He replied that, being a woman, the presence of a man would be necessary for any eventuality. Nellie replied that she would leave alone, at the same time as a man, certain that she would arrive first. And so it happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her journey she visited Europe, Japan, China, Hong Kong and Ceylon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women who made travel history: Margaret Moth, the photographer (1951-2010)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

She was the first female photographer in Oceania to produce dangerous reports for CNN<\/strong> in war zones.
Her passion for photography began at the age of 8, when she received her first camera as a gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A skydiving enthusiast, the \u201clady in black\u201d, nicknamed for her heavy eyeliner, during a firefight in Sarajevo, where she was covering the conflict in the 90s, she was seriously injured in the face by a gunshot and it took several operations and about two years for her to regain her speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she continued to work as a photographer until her death from cancer in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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