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Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine
de Holly Morris
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien
- ISBN 10
- 0375508279
- ISBN 13
- 9780375508271
- Librería
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Villard, 2005-10-04. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover in very good minus condition. Light wear an drubbing to edges of dust jacket and top and bottom edge of spine. Binding tight, pages clean. Previous owner initials to front page.
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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- Librería
- LegenGary Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 015424
- Título
- Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine
- Autor
- Holly Morris
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0375508279
- ISBN 13
- 9780375508271
- Editorial
- Villard
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005-10-04
- X weight
- 18 oz
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