Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman

Synopsis

Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a topee, Workman was a force on the mountain and off. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan mountain climbing, this American woman climbed more peaks than any of her peers, became the first woman to map the far reaches of the Himalayas, the first woman to lecture at the Sorbonne and the second to address the Royal Geographic Society of London, whose members included Charles Darwin, Richard Francis Burton, and David Livingstone. Her books, replete with photographs, illustrations and descriptions of meteorological conditions, glaciology and the effect of high altitudes on humans, remained useful decades after their publication. Paving the way for a legion of female climbers, her legacy lives on in scholarship prizes at Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe and Bryn Mawr.Author and journalist Cathryn J. Prince brings Fanny Bullock Workman to life and deftly shows how she negotiated the male-dominated world of alpine clubs and adventure societies as nimbly as she negotiated the deep crevasses and icy granite walls of the Himalayas. It's the story of the role one woman played in science and exploration, in breaking boundaries and frontiers for women everywhere.

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781613739587

Related ISBNs:

9781613739556

Publisher:

Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

Date of Addition:

05/09/19

Copyrighted By:

Cathryn J. Prince

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs, Outdoors and Nature

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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