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- Expeditions unpacked : what the great explorers took into the unknown / by Stafford, Ed,author.(CARDINAL)597503;
Introduction -- Nellie Bly -- Captain Robert Falcon Scott -- Roald Amundsen -- Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett -- Eva Dickson -- Clärenore Stinnes -- Amelia Earhart -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Jacques Cousteau -- Sir Edmund Hillary -- Tim Slessor -- Sir Robin Knox-Johnston -- Robyn Davidson -- Sir Ranulph Fiennes -- Reinhold Messner -- Jason Lewis -- Alastair Humphreys -- Rune Gjeldnes -- Ed Stafford -- Sarah Outen -- Bertrand Piccard and André Borshberg -- Fedor Konyukhov -- Olly Hicks and George Bullard -- Apa Sherpa -- Laura Bingham.In this unique and enthralling book, explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford curates 25 great expeditions through the lens of the kit these remarkable explorers took with them. In an environment where lack of preparation could mean certain death, the equipment carried, ridden and sailed into uncharted territories could mean the success or failure of an expedition. Was it simply a case of better provisions and preparation that helped Amundsen beat Scott to the South Pole? And how has the equipment taken to Everest changed since Hillary's first ascent? Through carefully curated photographs and specially commissioned illustrations we can see at a glance the scale, style and complexity of the items taken into the unknown by the greatest explorers of all time, and the impact each item had on their journey. How it potentially saved a life, or was purely for comfort or entertainment, and how these objects of survival have evolved and adapted as science advances, and we plunge further into the extremes. Conquering fears and mountains, adversity and wild jungles, each item these explorers flew, pulled or hauled played a crucial role in their ambitious and dangerous missions to find out a little more about our world. Through each of these objects, we can gain a better understanding ourselves.- Subjects: Explorers.; Voyages and travels.; Travel paraphernalia.; Scientific expeditions;
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- Mistresses : a history of the other woman / by Abbott, Elizabeth,1942-(CARDINAL)429590;
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- Las mujeres mueven montañas / by Sandwich, Pepita,1986-author,artist.(CARDINAL)816501;
En 1895, los peri̤dicos de Nueva York llamaron la atenci̤n sobre una mujer que recorr̕a el pa̕s pedaleando. Annie "Londonderry" se hab̕a ido de casa para ganar una apuesta: recorrer el mundo en bicicleta a cambio de cinco mil d̤lares. Aquello no era solo una proeza f̕sica y geogr̀fica: estaba desafiando las convenciones de la ěpoca. Y a pesar de que los medios estuvieron ms̀ interesados en seąlar que usaba pantalones en lugar de falda, Annie sigui̤ pedaleando. Su historia, junto a la de otras trece mujeres, integra este libro. Entre ellas estǹ Eva Dickson, la primera mujer en cruzar el S̀hara en coche; Valentina Tereshkova, que vol̤ al espacio, y Mary Anning, conocida por sus numerosos hallazgos del per̕odo jurs̀ico. Exploradoras, cient̕ficas, escaladoras, pero sobre todo pioneras, dieron la vuelta al mundo, tuvieron que disfrazarse de hombres, atravesaron cerros, cielos y estrellas para llegar a donde quisieron. Fueron mujeres que movieron montaąs.In 1895, the New York newspapers drew attention to a woman who rode the country pedaling. Annie Londonderry had left home to win a bet: travel the world by bicycle in exchange for five thousand dollars. That was not just a physical and geographical feat: it was challenging the conventions of the epoch. And even though the media were more interested in signaling that she wore pants instead of a skirt, Annie kept pedaling. Her story, along with that of thirteen other women, constitutes this book. Among them is Eva Dickson, the first woman to cross the Sahara by car; Valentina Tereshkova, who flew to space, and Mary Anning, known for her numerous findings of the Jurassic period. Explorers, scientists, climbers, but especially pioneers, went around the world, had to disguise themselves as men, crossed hills, skies and stars to get where they wanted. They were women who moved mountains.- Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Biographies.; Londonderry, Annie; Dickson, Eva; Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna, 1937-; Anning, Mary, 1799-1847; Women; Women cyclists; Women automobile drivers; Women astronauts; Women paleontologists; Women pioneers; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
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