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English
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"Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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A conservationist who has dedicated her life to saving orphan elephants in Africa describes her relationships with her late husband, Tsavo Park warden David Sheldrick, and a host of animals, including the majestic elephant, Eleanor.
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
unpaged : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It took her two tries, but in 1955, sixty-seven-year-old Emma 'Grandma' Gatewood became the first woman to solo hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one through hike. Gatewood has become a legend for those who hike the trail, and in her home state of Ohio, where she helped found the Buckeye Trail"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.
15) Visionary women: how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world
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Language
English
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This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women showed what one person speaking truth to power can do. With a keen eye for historical detail, Andrea Barnet traces the arc of each woman's career and explores how their work collectively changed the course of history. Consummate outsiders, each prevailed against powerful and mostly male adversaries while also anticipating the disaffections...
16) Planting peace
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"This picture book tells the inspiring story of Wangari Maathai, women's rights activist and one of the first environmental warriors. Wangari began the Green Belt Movement in Kenya in the 1960s, which focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. She inspired thousands across Africa to plant 30 million trees in 30 years and was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Explores environmental and political...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to a job in which she organized the rescue of the park from serious decline in the 1970s, returning it to the beautiful recreationally and spirituallly sustaining place it is today. Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life, continuing with her move to New York, where she had children and found being a mother and a housewife to not be enough. She poured herself...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
323 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The Earth in Her Hands celebrates the important contributions women make to the wide world of plants--in the fields of horticulture, environmental science, botany, floral design, farming, landscape architecture, herbalism, food justice, and more.
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