Category: Women Adventurers
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Louise Arner Boyd – Sophisticated Arctic Explorer
Imagine seeing Louse Arner Boyd on one of her polar expeditions – she would be dressed in typical Arctic gear, including boots, heavy sweater, oilskin jacket, and she could curse…
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Dervla Murphy – Bicycling Around the World
Dervla Murphy looked back on her life of adventure and travel and said that the key to travel is to “embrace the unpredictable.” Murphy certainly did that. She traveled through…
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Sorrel Wilby – A Young Woman Walking 1900 Miles Across Tibet
Tibet seems to fascinate many people. There is something about its mystery, the mountains, and the people that draws adventurers. It drew Sorrel Wilby, a photo-journalist from Australia, to it…
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Alexandra David-Neel – Tibetan Pilgrim, Scholar, and Rebel
If you wanted Alexandra David-Neel to do something, all you had to do was tell her she couldn’t do it. At 5 years old, she ran away from home, scratched…
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Annie Smith Peck – Queen of the Climbers
Many women adventurers had it said about them that “she should have been born a boy,” but probably no more so than Annie Smith Peck. Just look at her; she…
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Walking to Freedom – A Story of Three Courageous Girls
In August 1931, three half-caste girls escaped from Moore River Native Settlement south of Perth, Australia, and walked almost 1000 miles in 9 weeks to get to their homes. In…
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Maria Sibylla Merian – Pioneering Scientist, Artist, Traveler
Women in the 1700s didn’t work, they weren’t scientists, and they didn’t travel alone. Maria Sibylla Merian broke through all these barriers, creating a career for herself by combining art…
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Louisa Adams and Her Wild Journey Through Europe
Louisa Adams never could get used to the dislocations and disappointments of her life. Historian Michael O’Brien says, “All her life she had lacked confidence and seen the world as…
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Jeanne Baret – Naturalist and 18th Century World Traveler
Traveling around the world sounds glamorous to us, but for Europeans in the 18th century, it was no picnic. All sailors at the time were men, but imagine a woman…
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What Does Courage Mean? Aung San Suu Kyi’s Courage
Aung San Suu Kyi remains imprisoned in Myanmar. In January 2022 she was sentenced to four more years in prison for illegal possession and import of walie-talkies and breaking Covid-19…
