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.