Where no woman went before. Follow the heroic stories of women from across the world defying the odds of the travelers who came before them.
Read encapsulating biographies of the lives of women explorers; find where they ventured and how they undertook accomplishments without companions or creature comforts.
Explorers include. . .
- Isabella Bird: The first female fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She climbed volcanoes, rode horseback through untrodden paths, and chronicled these exploits in the books of her voyages to Hawaii, Tibet, Korea, Morocco, and Vietnam.
- Nelly Bly: The journalist proved that she could beat the record of Phileas Fogg, the protagonist of Around the World in Eighty Days; it took her seventy-two days.
- Emma Gatewood: The trailblazing 67-year-old woman who walked the Appalachian Trail in one season (over 2,050 miles on foot). She was the mother of eleven and was a great-grandmother.
- Alexandra David-Néel: Former French opera singer and Buddhist scholar, after assuring her husband she would return in eighteen months, embarked on what turned into a fourteen-year expedition through Asia to the forbidden city of Lhasa.
The World Is My Country is a testament to the power and determination that empowered women across the world to be the makers of history and exploration.
