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Women of the World: Women Travelers and Explorers

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.

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