Books
- Cressy-Marcks, Violet (1932). Up the Amazon and over the Andes. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 978-1-906393-03-8.
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'A snake crawling over one at night is… not a pleasant proposition… The wretched thing had bitten me below the knee…' Having lanced the wound, she found a mirror 'to see if I was going black or grey… I decided on coffee, a walk and sleep, and if I was going to die… I was at peace with the world - so … there was nothing to worry about'.
- Cressy-Marcks, Violet (1940). Journey into China.
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