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The lives and adventures of seven intrepid women are revealed in “this gem of a book . . . as captivating as the northern landscape itself” (Portland Book Review).
Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In Polar Wives, Kari Herbert reveals the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven remarkable women
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'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry … A welcome contribution to polar studies.' '[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill…takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief' The men of Captain Scott's Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the Empire they served by reaching the South Pole. But they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. For...
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¿Qué puede mover a una mujer a dejar su hogar, su ciudad, su familia y amigos y adentrarse en un mundo tan inhóspito como es la Antártida?
¿Qué fascinación causa el Ártico cuando muchas mujeres se ponen como reto alcanzarlo? ¿Qué lleva a una española a cruzar andando el Polo Sur en solitario?
Ellas nos lo cuentan a través de las páginas de Todos los caminos llevan a los polos, un nuevo episodio de esta colección, que se inició con África,...
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The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd - the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York's distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era. After inheriting a staggering...
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It was controversial explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson who sent four young men and Ada Blackjack into the far North to colonize desolate, uninhabited Wrangel Island. Only two of the men had set foot in the Arctic before. They took with them six months' worth of supplies on Stefansson's theory that this would be enough to sustain them for a year while they lived off the land itself. But as winter set in, they were struck by hardship and tragedy. As months...
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Pam Flowers tells the story of how, at the age of thirty-five, she decided to pursue a dream and moved from Texas to Alaska where she learned to become a dog musher and eventually became the first female and first American to travel solo across the entire length of the North American Arctic coast by dog team.
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a"Jackie Ronne reclaims her rightful place in polar history as the first American woman in Antarctica. Jackie was an ordinary American girl whose life changed after a blind date with rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. After marrying, they began planning the 1946-48 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition. Her participation was not welcomed by the expedition team of red-blooded males eager to prove themselves in the hostile environment. On March 12,...
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