Wildly Different : How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man's World

Lonsdale, Sarah

Manchester University Press（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526195067
• DDC分類 304.209252

Full Description

The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.

For 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.

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'.

Contents

Prologue: 'on the back of a polar bear'
Introduction: 'it is a quiet place, cold and beautiful'
Part I: Saplings
1 Mina: Northern Labrador 1905
2 Evelyn: Gorgona, Galapagos and Tahiti 1924-5
3 Dorothy: Snowdonia, the Alps and the Rockies 1915-25
4 Ethel: the Peak District 1924-31
5 Wangari: the Aberdares, Kansas and Nairobi 1940-77
Part II: Trees
6 Mina: Northern Labrador and London 1905-8
7 Dorothy: the Alps, the Himalayas and China 1926-31
8 Evelyn: Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Mount Nok 1929-51
9 Ethel: the Peak District and London 1932-52
10 Wangari: Nairobi 1980-99
Part III: Forest
11 Mina, Dorothy, Evelyn: 'ten thousand miles of stones'
12 Ethel and Wangari: 'rise up and walk!'
Index