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Ahead of their time : a biographical dictionary of risk-taking women
Title:
Ahead of their time : a biographical dictionary of risk-taking women
Author:
Duncan, Joyce, 1946-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Harriet Chalmers Adams -- Joy Friederike Victoria Gessner Adamson -- Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz -- Delia Denning Akeley -- Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley -- Jacqueline Marie-Therese Suzanne Douet Auriol -- Isabelle Autissier -- Ann Bancroft -- Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell -- Ruth Fulton Benedict -- Gertrude Benham -- Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop -- Arlene Blum -- Magaret Bourke-White -- Louise Arner Boyd -- Susan Butcher -- Rachel Louise Carson -- Lucy Evelyn Cheesman -- Eugenie Clark -- Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb -- Jacqueline Cochran -- Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman -- Eileen Marie Collins -- Alexandra David-Neel -- Meta Ann "Annie" Doak Dillard -- Florence Catherine Douglas Dixie -- Amelia Earhart -- Dian Fossey -- Clare Mary Francis -- Birute Marija Filomena Galdikis -- Jane Goodall -- Ernestine "Dee Dee" Green -- Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw -- Marguerite Elton Baker Harrison -- Mae Carol Jemison -- Amy Johnson -- Mary Henrietta Kingsley -- Monica Kristensen -- Ann LaBastille -- Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe -- Beryl Clutterbuck Markham -- Margaret Mead -- Sylvia Earle Mead -- Ruth Nichols -- Valentina Tereshkova Nikolayev -- Marianne North -- Diana Sneed Nyad -- Annie Smith Peck -- Harriet Quimby -- Sally Kristin Ride -- Freya Stark -- Junko Istibashi Tabei -- Alexandrine Petrinella Francina "Alexine" Tinne -- Fanny Bullock Workman -- Appendix I: vignettes of other women.
ISBN:
9780313316609
Format :
Book