Wild girls : how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation (Norton shorts)
by Miles, Tiya, 1970- (Author)
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Summary
A National Book Award-winning, New York Times best-selling historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eludin... Full description
- Preface: ice bridges
- Introduction: way finders
- Star gazers
- Nature writers
- Game changers
- Blue moons
- Epilogue: tree tops
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on sources and quotations
- Further reading
- Index.