Category: Women Adventurers
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Gloria Hollister – Daring Diver, Naturalist, and Explorer
Some women are just born adventurers. Gloria Hollister was one of them. She wasn’t about to play with dolls. At 10 she was exploring underwater and at 14 she was…
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Carolyn Gillespie – A Modern-Day Pilgrim on the Camino De Santiago
Pilgrim: A traveler that is taken seriously – Ambrose Bierce Throughout history, women have been taking pilgrimages and spiritual journeys. Often these journeys involve sacrifice, trials, and difficulty. I recently…
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Two Amazing Women and Their 7-Year Journey Through the Americas
Bethany Hughes and Lauren Reed (calling themselves “Her Odyssey”) traveled through two continents starting in 2015 from Ushuaia in Argentina, and ending in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada. They traveled by…
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Deborah Sampson – Brave Revolutionary War Soldier
Stories about women dressed as men who fight as soldiers are common in many wars, so I wasn’t surprised when I found accounts of several women who fought in the…
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Osa Johnson – Fearless World Adventurer
Osa Johnson loved life! And she craved excitement, sometimes to a disturbing degree for us mortals. Osa and her husband Martin traveled the globe in search of people and…
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Amazing Brave WW2 Resistance Fighter – Florence Finch
Florence Finch didn’t set out to be a hero. She just wanted to help friends who were in concentration camps and living as freedom fighters during the Japanese occupation of…
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Zenobia of Palmyra – Great Warrior Queen Who Stood Up to a Roman Emperor
Zenobia was a queen of the Palmyrene Empire (modern Syria). She was called “The Pearl Necklace” in the history of the Syrian kingdom. “Her face was dark and of a…
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Grandma Gatewood – Intrepid Walker and Trailblazer
Emma Gatewood had lived a rough life. Born in 1887, she was married at 19. Her husband started beating her during their honeymoon and he beat her many times –…
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Ella Maillart – A Life-long Adventurer – Unconventional and Multi-Talented
It’s 1932. A woman with a bicycle is standing on a mountain looking at the eastern frontier of Russian Turkestan. “…from the heights of the Celestial Mountains, I could [see],…
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Helga Estby – Walked Across America To Save Her Family
SPOKANE. Wash., May 4.(1896) -Mrs. H. Estby and her daughter, aged 18, leave tomorrow morning to walk to New York City. They are respectable, but will “rough it” as regular…
