They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades - Softcover

Holland, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385720025 ISBN 13: 9780385720021

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2002

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Book by Holland Barbara

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"Deliciously ironic, reliably brainy, steadily informative...a jubilant hop, skip and jump toward rectifying the omission of women from the historical record."-Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

"With humor and style, Holland reveals lives fraught with excitement, danger, passion [and] intrigue."-USA Today

"Deliciously ironic, reliably brainy, steadily informative . . . a jubilant hop, skip and jump toward rectifying the omission of women from the historical record." -Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

"With humor and style, Holland reveals lives fraught with excitement, danger, passion [and] intrigue." -USA Today

"Luxuriating in tales worth retelling . . . [Holland] gives herself free rein to speak her mind and break the rules." -The Washington Post

Reseña del editor:

Celebrates the remarkable lives of women whose roles in society were marked by adventure, rebellion, and distinctively non-conforming gender roles--including Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, Isadora Duncan, Amelia Earhart, Gertrude Bell, Anne Bonny, Queen Jinga of Angola, Daisy Bates, Mata Hari, and others. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0385720025
• ISBN 13: 9780385720021
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304