Women of the Four Winds

Women of the Four Winds
ISBN-10
0395957842
ISBN-13
9780395957844
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
318
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Elizabeth Fagg Olds

Description

Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane Goodalls and Sally Rides, these women represent a fascinating but forgotten era in the literature of exploration.

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