Wild Girls How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

Tiya Miles

eBook - 2023

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions and Literary Hub "Thoroughly absorbing.... A beautiful synthesis of diverse women's experiences, combining history with memoir and a call to action." —Jill Watts, New York Times Book Review An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fo...rt Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World's Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls...

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Published
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Main Author
Tiya Miles
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Kindle Book
ASINB0BVGR1W4Y
Release Date9/19/2023
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ISBN9781324020882
Release Date9/19/2023