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IDA LAURA (1797—1858), See also:Austrian traveller, daughter of a See also:merchant named See also:Reyer, was See also:born at See also:Vienna on the 14th of See also:October 1797. In 182o she married Dr Pfeiffer, a lawyer of See also:Lemberg, who subsequently incurred See also:official persecution and was reduced to poverty. In her later See also:life Mme Pfeiffer devoted her limited means to travel. In 1842 she visited See also:Palestine and See also:Egypt, and published an See also:account of her See also:journey in Reise einer Wienerin in das Heilige See also:Land (Vienna, 1843). In 1845 she set out to Scandinavia and See also:Iceland, describing her tour in two volumes, Reise nach dem skandinavischen See also:Norden and der Insel See also:Island (Pest, 1846). In 1846 she started on a journey See also:round the See also:world, visiting See also:Brazil, See also:Chile and other countries of See also:South See also:America, See also:Tahiti, See also:China, See also:India, See also:Persia, See also:Asia See also:Minor and See also:Greece, and reaching See also:home in 1848. The results were published in Eine Frauenfahrt See also:urn See also:die Well (Vienna, 185o). In 1851 she went to See also:England and thence to South See also:Africa, intending to penetrate into the interior; this proved impracticable, but she proceeded to the See also:Malay See also:Archipelago, spending eighteen months in the Sunda Islands and the See also:Moluccas. After a visit to See also:Australia, Madame Pfeiffer proceeded to See also:California, See also:Oregon, See also:Peru, See also:Ecuador, New See also:Granada, the Missiones Territory, and See also:north again to the See also:Great Lakes, reaching home in 1854. Her narrative, See also:Heine zweile Weltreise, was published at Vienna in 1856. In May of the same See also:year she set out to explore See also:Madagascar, where at first shewas cordially received by the See also:queen.

But she unwittingly allowed herself to be involved in a See also:

plot to overthrow the See also:government, and was expelled the See also:country. She died at Vienna on the 27th of October 1858. The Reise nach Madagascar was issued in 1861 (Vienna), with a See also:biography by her son.

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