Author: Margo McLoone
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781560655053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in Africa.
Women Explorers in Africa
Author: Margo McLoone
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781560655053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in Africa.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781560655053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in Africa.
Great Voyages
Author: Deborah Patterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712352857
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover the world through the eyes of the greatest explorers in history. Find out how the world was first circumnavigated by a slave and how travelers overcame the challenge of not having enough to eat and drink while traveling through unknown territory. Experience the excitement of seeing a new land for the first time, tasting new fruits and discovering new animals. This book focuses on 15 key voyages from around the world: the journeys undertaken by Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Zheng He, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Maria Sibylla Merian, Captain Cook, Lewis & Clark, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Gertrude Bell, Ernest Shackleton, and astronauts who took part in the Moon landings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712352857
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover the world through the eyes of the greatest explorers in history. Find out how the world was first circumnavigated by a slave and how travelers overcame the challenge of not having enough to eat and drink while traveling through unknown territory. Experience the excitement of seeing a new land for the first time, tasting new fruits and discovering new animals. This book focuses on 15 key voyages from around the world: the journeys undertaken by Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Zheng He, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Maria Sibylla Merian, Captain Cook, Lewis & Clark, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Gertrude Bell, Ernest Shackleton, and astronauts who took part in the Moon landings.
West with the Night
Author: Beryl Markham
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865471184
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865471184
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot.
My Journey to Lhasa
Author: Alexandra David-Néel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lassa
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lassa
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A Woman's Trek from the Cape to Cairo
Author: Mary Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Women of Discovery
Author: Milbry Polk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Based on 10 years of research, this text provides a visual history which presents the names and stories of over 80 women explorers. It reveals the obstacles they overcame in their inspiring quest for new knowledge.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Based on 10 years of research, this text provides a visual history which presents the names and stories of over 80 women explorers. It reveals the obstacles they overcame in their inspiring quest for new knowledge.
Women Explorers
Author: Julia Cummins
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 0147517362
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Introduces inspiring women whose passions for exploration made them push the boundaries, including Nellie Cashman, Annie Smith Peck, and Delia Julia Denning Akeley.
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 0147517362
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Introduces inspiring women whose passions for exploration made them push the boundaries, including Nellie Cashman, Annie Smith Peck, and Delia Julia Denning Akeley.
West African Studies
Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
The Women I Think About at Night
Author: Mia Kankimäki
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982129204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In this “thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women’s studies, and travelogue” (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen—of Out of Africa fame—lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can’t Mia? The Women I Think About at Night is “an astute, entertaining…[and] insightful” (Publishers Weekly) exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see—and change—the world.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982129204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In this “thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women’s studies, and travelogue” (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen—of Out of Africa fame—lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can’t Mia? The Women I Think About at Night is “an astute, entertaining…[and] insightful” (Publishers Weekly) exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see—and change—the world.
Travels in West Africa
Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description