Joanna Kafarowski

The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame (eBook, ePUB)

A Life of Louise Arner Boyd

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd - the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century.

Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York's distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era.

After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781459739727
• Artikelnr.: 48394639

Autorenporträt

Joanna Kafarowski, Ph.D., is passionate about researching and writing about the lives of women in polar history. She is the author of The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame: A Life of Louise Arner Boyd, the first comprehensive biography of a female Arctic explorer. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Maps
Prologue
Part One: An Unlikely Heroine
Chapter One: An Adventuress is Born
Chapter Two: Shaped by Adversity
Chapter Three: "Diana of the Arctic"
Part Two: The Call to Adventure
Chapter Four: Chasing Amundsen
Chapter Five: The Ice Queen Cometh
Chapter Six: Greenland Beckons
Chapter Seven: An Obsessive Pursuit
Part Three: Scaling the Heights
Chapter Eight: Contributing to Science
Chapter Nine: Honour and Glory
Chapter Ten: The North Pole And Beyond
Epilogue: The Legacy of Louise Arner Boyd
Acknowledgements
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index