{"product_id":"9781526195067","title":"Wildly different : Five women who reclaimed nature in a man’s world","description":"Author(s): Lonsdale, Sarah, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 21\/04\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages, 32 black \u0026amp; white illustrations,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Manchester University Press,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS\u003cp\u003e ,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Collected biographies,\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 25\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9781526195067\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured beyond the city wall or village boundary. So how did women claim their place in the remote and lovely parts of our planet? In Wildly different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth’s wild places. We’ll meet Mina Hubbard, who outraged the exploration community when she stepped into a canoe in northern Labrador. Evelyn Cheesman, who became the first female keeper of insects at London Zoo. Dorothy Pilley, who shocked polite society by donning men’s climbing breeches. Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District Britain’s first National Park. And Wangari Maathai, who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Wangari Maathai’s daughter and others, Lonsdale recounts the women’s adventures across five continents. Evocative and inspiring, this book shows how women can be ‘wildly different’. -- .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lonsdale, Sarah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56600239374722,"sku":"9781526195067","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9781526195067","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}