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Women Into The Unknown: A Sourcebook On Women In Explorers And Travelers
by Tinling, Marion
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG (mild bumped & rubbing to corners. crinkling to lower spine end. black smudges to back board)
- ISBN 10
- 0313253285
- ISBN 13
- 9780313253287
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Hardcover. VG (mild bumped & rubbing to corners. crinkling to lower spine end. black smudges to back board). red cloth boards w/ black & gilt tile plates. 357 pgs. The explorations of these women have yielded impressive contributions to many areas of knowledge, including geography, archaeology, botany, zoology, and anthropology, as well as sensitive accounts of travel and discovery. Each of the biographical sketches supplies a chronological listing of the subject's writings and a list of chief bibliographical sources. The volume concludes with an annotated list of travel books by women in the English language, a general bibliography, and an index. This book is an appropriate resource for studies in women's history, geography, social history, and anthropology, and an appealing choice for women readers with an interest in travel and biography.--Amazon.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 188140
- Title
- Women Into The Unknown: A Sourcebook On Women In Explorers And Travelers
- Author
- Tinling, Marion
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG (mild bumped & rubbing to corners. crinkling to lower spine end. black smudges to back board)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0313253285
- ISBN 13
- 9780313253287
- Publisher
- Greenwood Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- History, women explorers ; women explorers ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Gilt
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- VG
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- Rubbing
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