Women tend to explore in different ways and for different reasons than men, Polk claims.
Men are after the what and where, while women are after the how and why.
Polk is looking for more stories of female explorers. This includes cartographers, archaeologists, and navigators, as well as artists and poets. Nicole Maxwell in the Peruvian Amazon. The Huntington Library has long been known for its wide collection of manuscript and printed materials on Americana. This spring and summer the Huntington's Passages to Asia - Europe and the East in the Sixteenth Century exhibition gives map lovers another good reason to visit.