Women in the Wild: True Stories of Adventure and Connection (Travelers' Tales Guides) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932361065 ISBN 13: 9781932361063

Publisher: Travelers' Tales, 2004

Synopsis

Women in the Wild is a collection of thoughtful, insightful, and courageous adventures celebrating women in the outdoors. The stories weave a common thread of connection between the women's lives and their experienes with the powerful forces of nature. The book offers hard-core high adventure such as climbing Everest, swimming across Lake Titicaca, and surviving a shark attack, but also looks at the softer side of Mother Nature with solitary fishing in Ireland, rescuing an injured pelican, and the simple act of giving birth. Authors span the generations, with more than forty years between the youngest and oldest, providing encounters that thrill, humble, induce awe, and remind us just how fragile our lives, and this planet, can be. The collection celebrates the many ways in which women inteact with the natural universe as prey, as protector, as hunter, as lover, and as survivor.Join Alice Walker as she steps out her back door to connect with an ailing stallion, Jane Goodall and the chimpanzees in the forestsof the Congo, Lesley Hazelton as she flies high above the clouds, and GretelEhrlich as she is struck by lightning.

About this title

Review:

"A spiritual, moving and totally female book to take you around the world and back."

Synopsis:

Lucy McCauley collects women's travel stories, as they foray into the wilderness, kayak the whitewater of an exotic land, or bike the outback country.

About this edition

• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1932361065
• ISBN 13: 9781932361063
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: McCauley Lucy