Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America's first women explorers by Elizabeth Fagg Olds |
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Grade 6-9-In the 1920s, world attention was riveted on the perilous journeys of men like Richard Byrd and Roald Amundsen, who attempted to set new records for polar exploration. Louise Boyd was their American contemporary, the first woman to venture into Arctic regions where only men had preceded her, but her story is rarely told. Boyd enjoyed an idyllic childhood in California with her wealthy parents and two older brothers, yet by age 32 she had outlived all four of them and found herself alone with a huge inheritance. In 1926, her love for photography and her fascination with the stories about the first Arctic expeditions prompted her to charter a boat for a six-week journey to the Arctic Circle. It was the first of many increasingly daring polar ventures that she financed and directed, bringing back photographs and survey data that resulted in detailed maps of previously unknown regions. Sadly, Boyd's feats of heroism went virtually unnoticed, as she competed in a world of all-male explorers who frequently dismissed her contributions. Boyd's unconventional life reveals just as much about the evolution of women's rights as it does about the evolution of polar exploration. Hers is an intriguing story of how a great woman can be molded by-and then forgotten by-the society in which she lives. A few black-and-white photographs illustrate the book.
William McLoughlin, Brookside School, Worthington, OH
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"An intriguing story" -- School Library Journal
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Grade 6-9-In the 1920s, world attention was riveted on the perilous journeys of men like Richard Byrd and Roald Amundsen, who attempted to set new records for polar exploration. Louise Boyd was their American contemporary, the first woman to venture into Arctic regions where only men had preceded her, but her story is rarely told. Boyd enjoyed an idyllic childhood in California with her wealthy parents and two older brothers, yet by age 32 she had outlived all four of them and found herself alone with a huge inheritance. In 1926, her love for photography and her fascination with the stories about the first Arctic expeditions prompted her to charter a boat for a six-week journey to the Arctic Circle. It was the first of many increasingly daring polar ventures that she financed and directed, bringing back photographs and survey data that resulted in detailed maps of previously unknown regions. Sadly, Boyd's feats of heroism went virtually unnoticed, as she competed in a world of all-male explorers who frequently dismissed her contributions. Boyd's unconventional life reveals just as much about the evolution of women's rights as it does about the evolution of polar exploration. Hers is an intriguing story of how a great woman can be molded by-and then forgotten by-the society in which she lives. A few black-and-white photographs illustrate the book.
William McLoughlin, Brookside School, Worthington, OH
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"An intriguing story" -- School Library Journal
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