Women of the World Women Travelers and Explorers

Name: Women of the World Women Travelers and Explorers
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ISBN: 9780195076875

ISBN-10: 0195076877

ISBN-13: 9780195076875

Edition: 1992

Authors: Rebecca Stefoff

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Women of the World looks at eight women whose heroic journeys added to the world's geographic knowledge: Ida Pfeiffer, an 19th century women with "an insatiable desire to travel" who circled the world--twice, Fanny Bullock Workman, the world's foremost woman moutaineer, an early feminist, and one of the most controversial figures in modern geography, and Alexandra David-Neel, the first western woman to enter Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet.

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/18/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 152
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.31" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Rebecca Stefoff is the author of many books for children and young adults, including a biography of the Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh and her adaptation of Ronald Takaki's award-winning history of Asian Americans, Strangers from a Different Shore.