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Women of the Four Winds

Women of the Four Winds

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Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America's First Women Explorers

by Olds, Elizabeth Fagg; Elizabeth Olds

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First edition thus. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. xii, [2], 318 pp. Bound in green, illustrated wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Includes list of sources and index. Profile of Annie Smith Peck, Delia, J. Akeley, Marguerite Harrison, and Louise Arner Boyd. Fine, bright, clean copy.

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Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane Goodalls and Sally Rides, these women represent a fascinating but forgotten era in the literature of exploration.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Women of the Four Winds
Author
Olds, Elizabeth Fagg; Elizabeth Olds
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition thus
ISBN 10
0395957842
ISBN 13
9780395957844
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1999
Bookseller catalogs
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