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Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America's first women explorers

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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.

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.