Women Explorers

Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot.

Presents brief biographies of five women who risked their lives to travel around the world for adventure and to achieve career goals.

The story of Canadian women who felt the pull of the mountains and climbed some of the highest peaks wearing woollen knickers and hobnail boots.

Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored the polar regions.

Introduces inspiring women whose passions for exploration made them push the boundaries, including Nellie Cashman, Annie Smith Peck, and Delia Julia Denning Akeley.

A thirst for adventure, a deep desire to push themselves beyond their comfort zones, and an innate curiosity about the world and its peoples drive the biographies of the ten women explorers profiled here. As explorers they bring skills in cartography, geography, history, anthropology, botany, photography, linguistics and writing to their travels. Their stories begin with Sacagawea, a Native guide in the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805, and end in the present, with Mattie McNair and Denise Martin, the Canadian leaders of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. These are stories of women who dared to push beyond the safety of their own communities in order to live their dreams.

Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored such places as Tibet, Iran, and the steppes of Russia.

Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in Africa.