Women of the Four Winds
- ISBN-10
- 0395395844
- ISBN-13
- 9780395395844
- Category
- Explorers
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Author
- Elizabeth Fagg Olds
Description
Biographies of four of America's first women explorers: Annie S. Peek, Delia J. Akeley, Marguerite Harrison and Louise A. Boyd. Louise Boyd made numerous trips through the Arctic, including Spitzbergen, Franz Josef Land and the fiords of east Greenland. Marguerite Harrison made trips across Siberia.
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