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Born To Rebel: The Life Of Harriet Boyd Hawes
by Allsebrook, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG- (scuffs, scratches & light scores to boards. light rubbing, creasing to corners. spine lightly sunned.)
- ISBN 10
- 0946897409
- ISBN 13
- 9780946897407
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Oxford, England: Oxbow Books, 1992. Hardcover. VG- (scuffs, scratches & light scores to boards. light rubbing, creasing to corners. spine lightly sunned.). glossy red boards w/ bw illustration, white printing. 236 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Harriet Boyd was the first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. At a time when few women travelled on their own, she discovered, excavated and published an account of the Minoan town of Gournia in Crete. She was the first woman to lecture to the Archaeological Instituite of America - ten times in fourteen days in January 1902. While prominent as a lecturer and teacher, archaeology was only a part of her life: in 1897 she was nursing with the Red Cross in the Greco-Turkish war, in 1915 she was nursing Serbian typhoid victims on Corfu, and by 1917 she was in Northern France setting up a rehabilitation centre within sound of the front. While the past and its arts were her profession, the present and the future were her passionate interest - whether local social problems in her home town of Boston or international affairs which took her to lunch with Mrs Roosevelt at the White House. Mary Allsebrook's light-hearted and extremely readable account of her mother's extraordinary experiences shows Harriet Boyd to be truly one of America's pioneers.--Amazon.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 196635
- Title
- Born To Rebel: The Life Of Harriet Boyd Hawes
- Author
- Allsebrook, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (scuffs, scratches & light scores to boards. light rubbing, creasing to corners. spine lightly sunned.)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0946897409
- ISBN 13
- 9780946897407
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, England
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Biography / Autobiography, Harriet Boyd Hawes, archeology ; Harriet Boyd Hawes ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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