“Ida Pfeiffer was an icon of leisure travel, before leisure travel was even a thing…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.

For further reading:

A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Ida Pfeiffer.

Wanderlust: The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist by John van Wyhe (NUS Press, 2019).

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/