My selection is "Women explorers: perils, pistols, and petticoats" written by Julie Cummins with illustrations by Cheryl Harness.
Name
some famous explorers -- Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Lewis and Clark? Nothing wrong with those choices, but what about the
ladies? That's the question asked and
answered by Julie Cummins in this Nonfiction Monday selection.
Cummins
offers short biographies of ten remarkable women born before 1900 who took
risks and explored their world from the Arctic to the Andes, from the Amazon to
Africa. Lucy Cheesman traveled among cannibals
as she studied insects in the South
Pacific. Freya Stark journeyed through
the Middle East. Violet Cressy-Marcks
made eight trips around the world. As
they traveled, these intrepid women documented and photographed their journeys
and wrote extensively about their experiences and discoveries thus providing
important contributions to the natural and social sciences.
Cummins
has compiled readable, student-friendly biographies that entertain and
inform. She follows the text with a note
about ten additional woman explorers and provides a paragraph about each to invite readers to do a bit of discovering of their own. The book concludes with a selected bibliography
and websites for further reading.
Harness' illustrations compliment
the narrative by placing each woman in her geographical context and giving readers a vibrant visual sense of obstacles faced and overcome.
1 comment:
Oh nice! This looks awesome. It reminded me a little bit of the time when we had our Girl Power theme in March/April! I should have known about this book sooner.
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