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02153aam a2200325 i 4500 001 7CB2FBB4AA8B11E8AF1A930697128E48 003 SILO 005 20180828012729 007 n 008 180208s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2017491007 020 $a 1459739701 (softcover) 020 $a 9781459739703 (softcover) 040 $d IaEs $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Kafarowski, Joanna, $d 1962- 245 14 $a The polar adventures of a rich American dame : $b a life of Louise Arner Boyd / $c Joanna Kafarowski. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Dundurn, $c [2017] 300 $a 367 pages : $b illustrations, maps, portraits ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-357) and index. 520 $a "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. She was presented at the British royal court, and travelled in genteel style from one dazzling capital to another. After inheriting a staggering family fortune while only in her thirties, 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 philanthropist and society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today."-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20180510. 600 1 $a Boyd, Louise Arner, $d 1887-1972. 650 $a Women explorers $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Philanthropists $z United States $x Biography. 650 $a Women adventurers $z United States $v Biography. 650 4 $a Rich people $z United States $v Biography. 651 $a Arctic regions $x American. $x American. 941 $a 1 952 $l EBPE325 $d 20180828014313.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7CB2FBB4AA8B11E8AF1A930697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search