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Read encapsulating biographies of the lives of women explorers; find where they ventured and how they undertook accomplishments without companions or creature comforts.
Explorers include. . .
- Isabella Bird: The first female fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She climbed volcanoes, rode horseback through untrodden paths, and chronicled these exploits in the books of her voyages to Hawaii, Tibet, Korea, Morocco, and Vietnam.
- Nelly Bly: The journalist proved that she could beat the record of Phileas Fogg, the protagonist of Around the World in Eighty Days; it took her seventy-two days.
- Emma Gatewood: The trailblazing 67-year-old woman who walked the Appalachian Trail in one season (over 2,050 miles on foot). She was the mother of eleven and was a great-grandmother.
- Alexandra David-Néel: Former French opera singer and Buddhist scholar, after assuring her husband she would return in eighteen months, embarked on what turned into a fourteen-year expedition through Asia to the forbidden city of Lhasa.
The World Is My Country is a testament to the power and determination that empowered women across the world to be the makers of history and exploration.
Part One: The Adventuresses
Chapter 1: Mary Kingsley: First Female European to Explore Africa
Chapter 2: Alexandra David Néel: First Western Woman to Enter Lhasa, Tibet
Chapter 3: Louise Arner Body: Arctic Explorer
Chapter 4: Ella Maillart: Drove from Geneva to Kabul
Chapter 5: Barbara Hillary: First Black Woman to Reach the North Pole
Part Two: The Diplomats
Chapter 6: gertrude Bell: Drew the Border forthe Establishment of Iraq
Chapter 7: Dame Freya Stark: Imprisoned in Baghdad
Part Three: Travel by Bicycle
Chapter 8: Annie Londonderry: First Woman to Travel the wWorld on Two Wheels
Chapter 9: Dervla Murphy: Traversed the Andes with Daughter and Donkey
Travel by Foot
Chapter 10: Emma Gatewood: First Solo Female Thru-Hiker to Walk the Appalachian Trail
Chapter 11: Junko Tabei: The First Woman to Reach the Summit of Mount Everest
Chapter 12: Robyn Davidsom: Traversed the Australian Outback with Four Camels
Chapter 13: Cheryl Strayed: Hiked the Pacific Crest Trail
Chapter 14: Sarah Marquis: Walked Alone from Siberia to Australia
Travel By Car
Chapter 15: Aloha Wanderess: Saw the World from her Model T
The Foreign News Correspondents
Chapter 16: Nellie Bly: Went Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Chapter 17: Martha Gellhorn: Globe-Trotting Reporter
Chapter 18: Clare Hollingworth: Her Scoop Revealed the Event that Triggered World War II
Chapter 19: Jan Morris: Accompanied Sir Edmund Hilliary's Expedition to Mount Everest
Chapter 20: Marie Colvin: Reported from the Front Lines Around the World
50 Female Quotes on Travelling