Women explorers

Looks at the life of French explorer Alexandra David-Neel, focusing on her experiences after she left her husband and traveled to India where she became intrigued with the Buddhist religion, eventually becoming the first Western woman to enter Tibet's Forbidden City, Lhasa.

Chronicles the life of Gertrude Bell, the Englishwoman who explored the Middle East in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and played an important role in the founding of Iraq, helping to choose its first king and creating the Baghdad Museum.

Tells the life story of naturalist and museum patron Annie Montague Alexander, describing her childhood in Hawaii, her initiation to field collecting at a relatively late age, and the forty years she spent amassing specimens for the two museums she founded at the University of California at Berkeley.

Tells the life story of marine botanist Sylvia Earle, who in 1979 made history with the deepest solo untethered dive ever conducted, 1,250 feet down to Hawaii's ocean floor; and includes information on underwater air pressure and ocean zones, a chronology, and a further reading list.

Looks at the life of British explorer Mary Kingsley, focusing on her experiences after she decided to buck tradition and travel to the Congo in 1893, and discussing her studies of the fish and people of the West African country.