Starting with some considerations on the nature of travel, traditionally reserved to men scholars  and  explorers, this article offers some female accounts  of  their travels in  the  Nordic  Countries. When the first, solitary pioneers, are followed by English tourists, this area gradually  shows more accessible to an increasingly large number of female travellers; the Italians arrive with a certain delay, between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. Their accounts highlight, among others, two aspects: first, the emancipatory value that, in different ways, is implicit in their journeys; second, the originality of their views on the Nordic environment and society. Each traveller perceives herself as the protagonist of her own journey: space and time contribute to distancing them from the censorious gazes of the society to which they belong, offering the possibility of feeling  free from conformism and experimenting with the new role of  the  traveller. An anomalous situation, which removes them from the physical and cultural immobility in which they are confined in everyday life by consolidated representations. The uncontaminated and wild natural landscape they  observe which evokes emotional suggestions, far from the Mediterranean scenario; while from a social point of view, the egalitarian traditions and innovative paths of the Nordic countries fuel a desire for emancipation that is difficult to express in their  own homeland. Both these  authors’ travels and reports have the merit of proposing, albeit indirectly, different models of travellers and writers, overcoming the widespread prejudices that considered women culturally backward, not suited to hard journeys and extreme climates; furthermore, they contribute to the deconstruction of the unique image of the travelling man; finally, they facilitate the dissemination of information, at  the  time reserved to explorers and scholars, in an area of non-specialist readers. In addition to the concrete differences in their itineraries, when the journey is revisited through writing, other diversities accentuate the originality of these  women authors’ views, according  to their different cultural levels and communicative intentions. Eventually, the emancipatory value of the journey represents the common feature of all these accounts.