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A carregar... Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950por Alexandra Lapierre
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is a beautifully designed book about female explorers of the 17-early 20th centuries with an essay devoted to each. What surprised me the most in this book is that they spent many years in most inhospitable climates in jungles or deserts, and yet many of them lived extremely long lives, into late 80s or 90s, and two even lived past 100. And many of them started exploring in their late 30s, 40s or even 50s, when they became widowed and the kids grew up and left the nest, or their parents died and they were left on their own. Many of them weren’t women of independent means either, but they all found ways not only to survive but to organize one expedition after another. Some persuaded a museum to sponsor them, some wrote books about their explorations and adventures to provide for the next one, some went on lecture tours. Whatever their means of support, almost all made significant contributions to archeology or natural science, without any college education, or even secondary education in some cases. I found this an inspirational book, because there wasn’t anything in most of these women’s circumstances that was exceptional, and yet they all managed to carve out exceptional lives for themselves. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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An award-winning novelist brings to life the stories of the greatest women adventurers in history. From deserts and jungles to mountains and icebergs, they faced unimaginable dangers as they crossed all five continents, often armed with little more than a corset and an umbrella. Spanning a decade, this book mixes triumph and tragedy. The featured women include Fanny Vandegrift, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, who ventured all the way from Indiana to Samoa, and Nellie Bly, journalist and social reformer, who went around the world in seventy-two days. The thirty-one women celebrated here hail from fourteen countries and traveled to the farthest reaches of our planet. Twice as brave as their male counterparts, in the face of social convention, these women set off into the unknown. Their bold journeys across the globe had long-lasting effects on the role and status of women in society, and they made important contributions to disciplines as varied as medicine, archeology, and anthropology. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)910.922History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel History, geographic treatment, biography - Discovery. exploration Geographers, travellers, explorers regardless of country of originClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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