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An inspiring biographical collection celebrating the adventurousness and ingenuity of girls and women around the world.
Now more than ever, the world is recognizing how strong women and girls are. How strong? In the early 1920s, Inuit expeditioner Ada Blackjack survived for two years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean before she was finally rescued. And she's just one example.
The Girl Who Rode a Shark: And Other Stories of Daring Women is a rousing collection of biographies focused on women and girls who have written, explored, or otherwise plunged headfirst into the pages of history. Undaunted by expectations, they made their mark by persevering in pursuit of their passions. The tales come from a huge variety of times and places, from a Canadian astronaut to an Indian secret agent to a Balkan pirate queen who stood up to Ancient Rome.
Author and activist Ailsa Ross gives readers a fun, informative piece of nonfiction that emphasizes the boundless potential of a new generation of women.
Contents
INTRODUCTION 7
THE ARTISTS 8
Women with boundless curiosity, gigantic dreams, and a desire to share their amazing
experiences with the world - in the form of writing, painting, photography, dance and music.
LADY SARASHINA, The lady-in-waiting who became the first travel writer 10
Known for her adventures in: Japan
MARIANNE NORTH, The flower hunter who painted over a thousand plants 12
Known for her adventures: Around the world
ISABELLA BIRD, The Victorian lady who became a photojournalist 14
Known for her adventures: Around the world
NELLIE BLY, The superstar reporter who changed the world by writing about it 16
Known for her adventures: Around the world
ZORA NEALE HURSTON, The anthropologist who practiced voodoo 18
Known for her adventures in: Haiti
FREYA STARK, The flower farmer who explored Iran's Valleys of the Assassins 20
Known for her adventures in: The Middle East
EMILY HAHN, The writer who walked across the Congo 22
Known for her adventures in: Present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo
JOSEPHINE BAKER, The cabaret siren who became an activist and spy 24
Known for her adventures in: France and Morocco
MIHAELA NOROC, The photographer who captures the beauty of women around the globe 26
Known for her adventures: Around the world
THE PIONEERS 28
Women who have blazed trails from the mountains to the plains.
These adventurers have broken big ground for the rest of us.
TEUTA, The pirate queen who stood up to Ancient Rome 30
Known for her adventures in: Ancient Illyria (present-day Balkans)
ISOBEL GUNN, The fur trapper who crossed the Canadian wilderness in disguise 32
Known for her adventures in: present-day Canada
SACAGAWE,A, The teenager who joined America's biggest expedition 33
Known for her adventures in: present-day United States
AMELIA EARHART, The pioneer pilot who soared over oceans 36
Known for her adventures: Around the world
BERYL MARKHAM, The pilot who broke an Atlantic record 37
Known for her adventures in: Africa and over the Atlantic
ADA BLACKJACK, The castaway who survived alone on an Arctic island 40
Known for her adventures on: Wrangel Island
LUCY NABIKI TAKONA, The female safari guide challenging expectations 42
Known for her adventures in: Kenya
AISHOLPAN NURGAIV, The teenage eagle hunter bringing back a 2,000-year-old tradition 44
Known for her adventures in: Mongolia
THE SCIENTISTS 46
Women who have voyaged from the deepest seas to outer space
in their quests to understand the world around us.
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN, The painter who traveled to Suriname in search of butterflies 48
Known for her adventures in: Suriname
JEANNE BARET, The first woman to sail around the world 50
Known for her adventures: Around the world
WANG ZHENYI, The astronomer who traveled across eastern China 52
Known for her adventures in: China
YNÉS MEXÍA, The explorer who proved science is for everyone 54
Known for her adventures in: Mexico
SYLVIA EARLE, The biologist who led the first all-women team of scientists to live underwater 56
Known for her adventures in: the ocean
ROBERTA BONDAR, The astronaut who became the first neurologist in space 58
Known for her adventures in: space
NALINI NADKARNI, The dancer who became a treetop scientist 60
Known for her adventures in: Costa Rica
BOLORTSETSEG MINJIN, The paleontologist making dinosaur studies accessible to everyone 62
Known for her adventures in: Mongolia
THE ACTIVISTS 64
Women who have dared to speak up, kick down barriers, fight
injustice and make the world a better place - whatever it takes.
Naomi Wadler, The student advocating for victims of gun violence 66
Known for her adventures in: USA
JOAN OF ARC, The teenage warrior who fought for France 68
Known for her adventures in: France
NZINGA, The queen who became a fierce fighter 70
Known for her adventures in: present-day Angola
BESSIE COLEMAN, The pilot who opened the skies to everyone 72
Known for her adventures in: France and the USA
WHINA COOPER, The Ma-ori activist who marched 600 miles for land rights 74
Known for her adventures in: New Zealand
GERTRUDE BLOM, The anthropologist who became one of the first environmental activists 76
Known for her adventures in: Mexico
Shannen Koostachin, The teenager who fought for education in First Nations communities 78
Known for her adventures in: Canada
NOOR INAYAT KHAN, The Indian princess who became a secret agent 80
Known for her adventures in: France
ANITA RODDICK, The entrepreneur who traveled the world to create ethical cosmetics 82
Known for her adventures: Around the world
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH, The Nobel Prize winner giving a voice to the survivors of conflict and disaster 84
Known for her adventures in: the former Soviet Union
THE ATHLETES 86
Women who have pushed themselves to the very limits of their
capabilities in pursuit of bold goals and ambitions.
ANNIE LONDONDERRY, The first woman to circumnavigate the world by bicycle 88
Known for her adventures: Around the world
DIANA NYAD, The champion who swam from Cuba to Florida 90
Known for her adventures in: the Florida Strait
CHERYL STRAYED, The writer who sparked a hiking revolution 92
Known for her adventures in: the USA
KIMI WERNER, The freediving chef who rode a shark 94
SILVANA LIMA, The surfer who refuses to take "no" for an answer 96
Known for her adventures in: Brazil
ARUNIMA SINHA, The amputee athlete who climbed Mount Everest 98
Known for her adventures in: the Himalayas
MIRA RAI, The soldier running the world's most challenging trail races 100
Known for her adventures in: Nepal
LAURA DEKKER, The teenager who sailed solo around the earth 102
Known for her adventures: Around the world
ASHIMA SHIRAISHI, The teenager being called the best rock climber of all time 104
Known for her adventures in: Around the world
JADE HAMEISTER, The polar explorer who hit back at bullies from the South Pole 106
Known for her adventures in: the Arctic Circle and Antarctica
THE SEEKERS 108
Women who have journeyed in search of meaning,
love, safety - the things that make a life.
ISABEL GODIN, The noblewoman who became lost in the Amazon rainforest 110
Known for her adventures in: the Amazon
HESTER STANHOPE, The gentlewoman who became Queen of the Desert 112
Known for her adventures in: Syria
ALEXANDRA DAVID-NÉEL, The Buddhist opera singer who entered the forbidden city of Lhasa 114
Known for her adventures in: Tibet
ISABELLE EBERHARDT, The explosive writer who explored the Sahara Desert 116
Known for her adventures in: Algeria
ROBYN DAVIDSON, The wanderer who crossed 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the Indian Ocean 118
Known for her adventures in: Australia
MANON OSSEVOORT, The adventurer who drove a tractor from Europe to the South Pole 120
Known for her adventures in: Europe, Africa and Antarctica
NUJEEN MUSTAFA, The teenager who journeyed from war-torn Syria in a wheelchair 122
Known for her adventures: Across Europe
GLOSSARY 124
Back Matter: Indigenous people referenced in this book & a bit about geography 127
Acknowledgments 128
