Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored The World
by Milbry Polk; Mary Tiegreen
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1902686179
- ISBN 13
- 9781902686172
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About This Item
Scriptum Editions, London, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. The stories of more than eighty extraordinary explorers and adventurers are vividly recounted and stunningly illustrated in Women of Discovery. Here for the first time are gathered the tales of early voyagers, such as the valiant tenth-century Viking adventurer Unn the Deep Minded and seventeenth-century Spanish conquistadora Catalina de Erauso. Intrepid explorers like Mary Kingsley in Africa, Alexandra David-Neel in Tibet, and Freya Stark in the Middle East traveled fearlessly into the blank spaces on the map. Artist explorers, including the great botanical painter Anna Maria Sibylla Merian in Surinam, writer Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti, and photographer Ruth Robertson in South America, captured in their art the beauty and mystery of exotic lands. Many brave women have ventured into extreme environments to bring back knowledge, whether they were aviators like Amelia Earhart, mountaineers like Annie Smith Peck, or Arctic explorers like Irina and Valentina Kuznetsova. And the annals of science would be far poorer without the work of such women as primatologists Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, ethnobotanist Nicole Maxwell, and ichthyologist Eugenie Clark. Top corner of front blank endpaper has been removed. 256 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Exploration; Exploration; ISBN: 1902686179. ISBN/EAN: 9781902686172. Inventory No: 264213.. 9781902686172 This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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- Bookseller
- leura books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 264213
- Title
- Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored The World
- Author
- Milbry Polk; Mary Tiegreen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1902686179
- ISBN 13
- 9781902686172
- Publisher
- Scriptum Editions
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Exploration; Exploration; Unbranded ISBN: 1902686179 EAN: 9781902686172 Milbry Polk; Mary Tiegreen Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored The World
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- Exploration;
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