Grade
4-6
Rebecca Stefoff
Women of the World: Women Travelers and Explorers
Hardcover
(Oxford University Press Feb. 18, 1993)
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.
- Series
- Extraordinary Explorers
- ISBN
- 0195076877 / 9780195076875
- Pages
- 152
- Weight
- 25.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.8 x 0.6
in.