The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mount McKinley Tapa blanda - 2001
de Barbara Washburn; Lew Freedman (With)
Descripción de contraportada
Barbara Washburn was the first woman to climb Alaska's Mount McKinley, at 20,320 feet the highest peak in North America. The ascent in 1947 was but a single feat of a woman who, by ordinary standards, has lived several lifetimes' worth of adventure. THE ACCIDENTAL ADVENTURER chronicles the life journey of a Massachusetts girl through college to a job at Harvard; her romance with a handsome, irrepressible young scientist and explorer named Bradford Washburn; and her emergence as an Alaskan mountaineering pioneer. Soon after she and Brad Washburn exchanged vows, she found herself a member of a climbing team led by her husband making an ascent of Alaska's Mount Bertha. A first ascent of Mount Hayes followed. Then came her historic climb of Mount McKinley (Danali). The decades that followed brought adventure in many forms as she raised three children, helped map the Grand Canyon, became an award-winning teacher, and traveled the world. In an era when a woman's place was in the home, she climbed - literally - beyond the limitations of her gender, becoming a role model for successive generations of young women who learned anything is possible. Barbara Washburn never set out to become a mountaineering pioneer, but she wasn't content to be a stay-at-home wife, either. In 1947, defying social convention, Washburn became the first woman to climb Alaska's Mt. McKinley. She accompanied her husband, Bradford Washburn, on other expeditions to Alaska, the Grand Canyon, and Mt. Everest, while raising three children at their home near Boston.
Detalles
- Título The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mount McKinley
- Autor Barbara Washburn; Lew Freedman (With)
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición 1st Edition
- Páginas 196
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Epicenter Press (WA), [Kenmore, WA]
- Fecha de publicación 2001-03-01
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780945397915 / 0945397917
- Peso 0.65 libras (0.29 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.51 pulgadas (22.81 x 15.19 x 1.30 cm)
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Temas
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure and adventurers - United States, Mountaineers - United States
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 00136170
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Library Journal, 06/15/2001, Page 94
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