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Author:

Skeers, Linda, author.

Title:

Women who dared : 52 stories of fearless daredevils, adventurers, and rebels / Linda Skeers ; illustrated by Livi Gosling.

Publisher:

SourcebooksInc.,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women daredevils--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women adventurers--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Adventure and adventurers--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women heroes--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Dissenters--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Gosling, Livi, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

Profiles fifty-two women in history who who have risked their lives for the sake of adventure, including Sophie Blanchard, Mary Anning, Minnie Spotted Wolf, and Alia Muhammad Baker.

ISBN:

1492653276 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781492653271 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2017006498

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