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Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine
de Morris, Holly
- Usado
- Bueno
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Bueno/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375508279
- ISBN 13
- 9780375508271
- Librería
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Villard, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. First Edition w/ complete numberline. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket. Book has a touch of shelfwear; DJ has a touch of shelfwear. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.
Sinopsis
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited producer-mother, Jeannie, and a whole lot of chutzpah, Morris tracked down artists, activists, and politicos--women of action who are changing the rules and sometimes the world around them.In these pages, Morris brings to life the remarkable people and places she's encountered on the road while filming her PBS series Adventure Divas and other programs. We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi's chief of police, who revolutionized India's infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government's strict stance on art. Along the way, Morris herself becomes a certified Adventure Diva, as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia.Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling details of place, Adventure Divas is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity, ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our own adventures.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 620391
- Título
- Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine
- Autor
- Morris, Holly
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375508279
- ISBN 13
- 9780375508271
- Editorial
- Villard
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Palabras clave
- WHAR.866, , , , , , , ,
Términos de venta
Arundel Books of Seattle
7-day return only if not as described (you must notify us immediately on upon receipt of any problem). We pack carefully.
Sobre el vendedor
Arundel Books of Seattle
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Seattle, Washington
Sobre Arundel Books of Seattle
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
