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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Although now almost completely forgotten, the four subjects of this collective biography were celebrated heroines in the first four decades of the 20th century. Annie Peck climbed mountains in South America; Delia Akeley explored equatorial Africa and lived with isolated pygmy tribes; Marguerite Harrison was a spy in Soviet Russia and a filmmaker trekking with nomads in Persia; Louise Boyd led expeditions to the Arctic. Olds, a journalist and past president of the Society of Women Geographers, has written a crisp, lively, and wonderfully entertaining account of these early members of the society. In addition , she has performed the valuable task of restoring the memory of these women to contemporary history. One hopes that these brief sketches will inspire book-length biographies. Ann Sullivan, Tompkins Cortland Community Coll. Lib., Dryden, N.Y.
Copyright 1985 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.About the Author
Elizabeth Fagg Olds is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Company titles including: "Women of the Four Winds".
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An inspirational look back at 4 remarkable women,
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This review is from: Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America's first women explorers (Paperback)
This inspirational biography chronicles the remarkable tales of 4 early women adventurers. Compared to today's adventure classic, Into Thin Air, this book reflects back to a time when early explorers made the trek to the top of Peru's tallest peak in leather lace up boots and a skirt. reading like and adventure novel, and exceptionally well written. This is an inspirational read for both sexes.
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This is a terrific, inspiring book about adventurous, stubborn, innovative women of another time, who refused to bend to social constraints and instead create lives of their own making. I think that many women - of all ages - will find it fascinating and a source of strength and motivation.
I bought this book specifically for information on one of the women covered - Annie Smith Peck. I was the owner of her brother William's Victorian home in Providence - where she frequently stayed - for 20 years. When I bought the house from its 4th owner (William was the 1st, his son the 2nd), an 83-yr-old widow who had loved there for 40+ years, she pointed out an antique oak mission desk in the living room, and told me that it had been Miss Peck's and that it was on this desk that she had done much of her writing of her adventures. I still have this desk, and treasure it. I have spent many hours writing there. I'd swear that it is still imbued with some of Annie's creative and adventurous spirit.
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FROM THE DAYS of the mythical Argonauts until relatively recent times, the business of discovery and exploration, whether legendary or real, inevitably featured an all-male cast. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, East Greenland, North Pole, South America, Louise Boyd, San Francisco, American Geographical Society, Delia Akeley, Marguerite Harrison, Annie Peck, World War, Franz Josef Fiord, American Museum, Field Museum, Haidar Khan, Society of Woman Geographers, Baltimore Sun, Belgian Congo, Brooklyn Museum, Amir Jang, Baba Ahmedi, Captain Olsen, Maple Lawn, Miss Boyd Land New!
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FROM THE DAYS of the mythical Argonauts until relatively recent times, the business of discovery and exploration, whether legendary or real, inevitably featured an all-male cast. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, East Greenland, North Pole, South America, Louise Boyd, San Francisco, American Geographical Society, Delia Akeley, Marguerite Harrison, Annie Peck, World War, Franz Josef Fiord, American Museum, Field Museum, Haidar Khan, Society of Woman Geographers, Baltimore Sun, Belgian Congo, Brooklyn Museum, Amir Jang, Baba Ahmedi, Captain Olsen, Maple Lawn, Miss Boyd Land New!
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- The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912 by Captain Roald Amundsen on page 240
- On Wings of Fire by Rh Value Publishing on page 301
- Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia by Henry Layard on page 303
- Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn on page 181
- The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth on page 236
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- Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature (Gender and American Culture) by Vera Norwood in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830-1920 by Mary Suzanne Schriber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On the Gorilla Trail (Sisters of the Hunt) by Mary Hastings Bradley in Front Matter
- Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America by Peter J. Schmitt on page 226
- Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories About Women Who Made a Difference by Penny Colman in Back Matter
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