The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World

ISBN-10
1728215269
ISBN-13
9781728215266
Category
Women explorers
Language
English
Published
2021
Author
Jayne E. Zanglein

Description

""Don't take women when you go exploring!" In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, the president of the Explorers Club, told hundreds of female students at Barnard College that women and exploration could never mix. He obviously didn't know a thing about either... The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the women who broke apart the stuffy men's club and founded the Society of Woman Geographers (SWG), and how some key members-including Blair Niles, Amelia Earhart, Gloria Hollister, and Anna Heyward Taylor-paved the way for women scientists by scaling mountains, exploring the seas, flying across the Atlantic, and recording the world through film, sculpture, and art"--

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