Women of Discovery A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World Tapa dura - 2001

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Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

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… Leer más

Scriptum Editions, 2001-10. Hardcover. Good.

Scriptum Editions, 2001-10-01. Paperback. Like New/Dust jacket in mylar protective . 10x6x0.

Scriptum Editions. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!