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001			ocm1049818421
003			OCoLC
005			20200122110844.0
008			181025s2019 ilu b 001 0beng
010			_a 2018033718
020			_a9781613739556
035			_a(OCoLC)1049818421
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dOCLCF _dMiTN
050	0	0	_aGV199.92. W67 _bP75 2019
099			_aB _aWORKMAN _aP
100	1		_aPrince, Cathryn J., _d1969-
245	1	0	_aQueen of the mountaineers : _bthe trailblazing life of Fanny Bullock Workman / _cCathryn J. Prince.
264		1	_aChicago, Illinois : _bChicago Review Press, _c2019.
300			_apages cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600	1	0	_aWorkman, Fanny Bullock, _d1859-1925.
650		0	_aMountaineering _zHimalaya Mountains _xHistory.
650		0	_aWomen mountaineers _zUnited States _vBiography.
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