description: Women of the World looks at eight women whose heroic journeys added to the world's geographic Ida Pfeiffer, an 19th century women with "an insatiable desire to travel" who circled the world--twice, Fanny Bullock Workman, the world's foremost woman moutaineer, an early feminist, andone of the most controversial figures in modern geography, and Alexandra David-Neel, the first western woman to enter Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet.
language: English
title: Women of The World: Women Travelers and Explorers
titlecomplete: Women of The World: Women Travelers and Explorers (Extraordinary Explorers)
genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History
ratings_count: 7
series: Extraordinary Explorers
publisher: Oxford University Press