women explorers

Recounts the experiences of Jeanne Baret as she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe while working on Louis Antoine de Bougainville's ships in the mid-eighteenth century.

Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored the polar regions.

Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in North and South America.

Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored such places as Tibet, Iran, and the steppes of Russia.

Summarizes the lives and accomplishments of five women who were explorers in Africa.

Profiles the lives and accomplishments of pioneering women explorers, including Isabella Bird Bishop, Amelia Earhart, Mary Kingsley, Annie Smith Peck, Freya Stark, and Valentina Tereshkova.

Profiles ten female explorers throughout history, describing the lives and accomplishments of Nellie Cashman, Annie Smith Peck, and other women who climbed mountains, studied Aboriginal cultures, lived with Pygmies, and more.

A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.