Guignard, Lilace Mellin,

When everything beyond the walls is wild : being a woman outdoors in America / Lilace Mellin Guignard ; foreword by M. Jimmie Killingsworth. - First edition. - ix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. - The seventh generation: survival, sustainability, sustenance in a new nature. A Wardlaw book. . - Seventh generation (Series) Wardlaw book. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting out -- Twentieth-century road trip -- Independence, road trips, and backpacking -- Large as land -- Men and tents -- To reach green before dark -- Whitewater twenties -- Marking my territory -- Babes in the woods and on the rivers -- Risking play -- Rock-climbing thirties -- Toy equity -- Outside expectations -- En cordee feminine -- Becoming all animal -- Bicycles, motherhood, and midlife -- Blighted -- Self as habitat -- Age of adventure -- Fire in paradise -- Going home -- Twenty-first-century road trip.

9781623497644 1623497647

2018045370


Outdoorsmen--United States--Biography.
Women naturalists--United States--Biography.
Naturalists--United States--Biography.
Outdoor life--United States.
Outdoor recreation for women--United States.

GV191.52. G85 / W54 2019