The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3970-3 (ISBN)
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The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century.
Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era.
After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.
Joanna Kafarowski, Ph.D., is an independent scholar and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an Affiliate Member of the American Geographical Society, and a Member of the Society of Woman Geographers. She is an inveterate traveller and currently divides her time between Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and Marple, Cheshire, England.
Illustrations
Maps
Prologue
Part One: An Unlikely Heroine
Chapter One: An Adventuress is Born
Chapter Two: Shaped by Adversity
Chapter Three: “Diana of the Arctic”
Part Two: The Call to Adventure
Chapter Four: Chasing Amundsen
Chapter Five: The Ice Queen Cometh
Chapter Six: Greenland Beckons
Chapter Seven: An Obsessive Pursuit
Part Three: Scaling the Heights
Chapter Eight: Contributing to Science
Chapter Nine: Honour and Glory
Chapter Ten: The North Pole And Beyond
Epilogue: The Legacy of Louise Arner Boyd
Acknowledgements
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.02.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | notes; Bibliography; Index; Maps; 103 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 594 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4597-3970-1 / 1459739701 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4597-3970-3 / 9781459739703 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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