Book Description
Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in Africa.
Author : Margo McLoone
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781560655053
Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in Africa.
Author : Deborah Patterson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : 9780712352857
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.
Author : Beryl Markham
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780865471184
Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot.
Author : Ellen Rodger
Publisher : Hidden History
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778773047
There�s no doubt that women have always been a part of journeys of discovery, from Viking women crossing the ocean to new lands to trade caravans bringing goods through Africa. But there is slim mention of them in most history books. This exciting book digs up the history of the bold women who dared to travel all over the world, including multilingual Isabelle Eberhardt, who �obeyed her destiny� and traveled through the Algerian desert dressed as a man, and adventurous aviatrix Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman to hold a pilot�s license.
Author : Béatrice Bijon
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781433105975
Fourteen essays provide a challenging outlook on narratives by women explorers and travellers from five different continents, spanning nearly one century from 1850 to 1945. The map thus drawn enables one to revisit, restore, and reassess the content and the originality of these narratives by women. The essays are relevant to the fields of travel writing and gender studies, and all draw from referential contemporary theoretical and critical works (Michel Foucault, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Sara Mills, Kristi Siegel, and Jane Robinson). The main interest and originality of the volume result from the perspectives adopted by the different authors. The text-oriented analyses rely on close reading, thus definitely providing accurate and perceptive critical insights into the narratives. Such perspective precludes erasing the differential features characterizing each geographical space and each travelling subject. It also moves away from any temptation at creating a naturalized mythical image of these women.
Author : Alexandra David-Néel
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Lassa
ISBN :
Author : Kathy Juanita Roe
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher :
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Author : Milbry Polk
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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.
Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2003-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547349599
Mary Kingsley spent her childhood in a small house on a lonely lane outside London, England. Her mother was bedridden, her father rarely home, and Mary served as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant. Not until she was thirty years old did Mary get her chance to explore the world she’d read about in her father’s library. In 1893, she arrived in West Africa, where she encountered giant Xying insects, crocodiles, hippos, and brutal heat. Mary endured the hardships of the equatorial country—and thrived.