Women explorers: perils, pistols, and petticoats

Louise Arner Boyd (1887-1972 : from parties to polar bears

Nellie Cashman (1850-1925) : go west, young lady

Ynes Mexia (1870-1938) : going green

Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969) : a bug up her sleeve

Annie Smith Peck (1850-1935) : how high can you climb?

Alexandrine Tinné (1835-1869) : mystery of the Nile

Delia Julia Denning Akeley (1875-1970) : Africa, from dawn to tusk

Violet Cressy-Marcks (1890-1970) : "shrinking violet?"

not this lady!

Freya Stark (1893-1993) : Arabian nights and days

Daisy Bates (1863-1951) : walk on the wild side.