Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures (Adventure Press)

Drawn from more than one hundred years of first-person narratives from the collection of the National Geographic Society, a collection of firsthand accounts documents the accomplishments of women explorers who ventured into the unknown, featuring contributions from astronaut Shannon Lucid, arctic explorer Helen Thayer, Victorian world traveler Isabella Bird Bishop, and others. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.