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Ahead of their time : a biographical dictionary of risk-taking women / Joyce Duncan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncan, Joyce, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Biography--Dictionaries.
- Women--Biography.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 312 pages : portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- A unique collection of profiles of 75 daring women who pushed ahead with the spirit of adventure and made pioneering contributions on land, in the sea and in the skies.
- Contents:
- Harriet Chalmers Adams 1
- Joy Friederike Victoria Gessner Adamson 7
- Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 13
- Delia Denning Akeley 17
- Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley 23
- Jacqueline Marie-Therese Suzanne Douet Auriol 27
- Isabelle Autissier 31
- Ann Bancroft 37
- Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell 43
- Ruth Fulton Benedict 49
- Gertrude Benham 55
- Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop 59
- Arlene Blum 65
- Margaret Bourke-White 69
- Louise Arner Boyd 73
- Susan Butcher 77
- Rachel Louise Carson 83
- Lucy Evelyn Cheesman 87
- Eugenie Clark 91
- Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb 97
- Jacqueline Cochran 103
- Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman 109
- Eileen Marie Collins 115
- Alexandra David-Neel 119
- Meta Ann "Annie" Doak Dillard 125
- Florence Catherine Douglas Dixie 129
- Amelia Earhart 133
- Dian Fossey 141
- Clare Mary Francis 147
- Birute Marija Filomena Galdikis 153
- Jane Goodall 159
- Ernestine "Dee Dee" Green 165
- Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw 169
- Marguerite Elton Baker Harrison 173
- Mae Carol Jemison 179
- Amy Johnson 183
- Mary Henrietta Kingsley 189
- Monica Kristensen 195
- Anne LaBastille 201
- Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe 207
- Beryl Clutterbuck Markham 211
- Margaret Mead 217
- Sylvia Earle Mead 223
- Ruth Nichols 229
- Valentina Tereshkova Nikolayev 235
- Marianne North 239
- Diana Sneed Nyad 245
- Annie Smith Peck 249
- Harriet Quimby 255
- Sally Kristen Ride 261
- Freya Stark 265
- Junko Istibashi Tabei 271
- Alexandrine Petronella "Alexine" Tinne 275
- Fanny Bullock Workman 281
- Appendix I Vignettes of Other Women 285
- Mary Bailey 285
- Winifred Blackman 285
- Anne Isabella Noel Blunt 286
- Diane Doran 286
- Gertrude Caroline Ederle 287
- Mina A. Ellis 288
- Joan Rosita Forbes 288
- Sophia Heath 288
- Jill Heinerth 289
- Jeanne Holm 289
- Kara Hultgreen 289
- Dora Keen 290
- Claude Kogan 290
- Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed Leblond 290
- Jerri Nielsen 291
- Edith "Jackie" Ronne 291
- Sheila Christine Scott 291
- Gertrude Emerson Sen 292
- Miriam O'Brien Underhill 292
- Mary Vaux Walcott 292
- Lucy Walker 293.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313316600
- OCLC:
- 47283091
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