They Went Whistling Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades

Name: They Went Whistling Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
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ISBN: 9780385720021

ISBN-10: 0385720025

ISBN-13: 9780385720021

Edition: 2002

Authors: Barbara Holland

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Throughout history there have been women, endowed with curiosity and abundant spirit, who stepped out of the cave, cast off the shackles of expectation, and struck out for new territory. In this ode to bold, brash, and sometimes just plain dangerous women, Barbara Holland reanimates those rebels who defied convention and challenged authority on a truly grand scale: they traveled the world, commanded pirate ships, spied on the enemy, established foreign countries, scaled 19,000-foot passes, and lobbied to change the Constitution. Some were merry and flamboyant; others depressive and solitary. Some dressed up as men; others cherished their Victorian gowns. Many were ambivalent or absentminded…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.95" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Barbara Holland is a Virginian and long-time observer of the Washington scene.



Introduction


Warriors


Menswear


Outlaws


Exiles


Wayfarers


Renegades


Grandstanders


Seekers


Radicals


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Index