Wild girls how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation

A National Book Award-winning, New York Times best-selling historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eludin...

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Main Author: Miles, Tiya, 1970- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]
Series: Norton shorts.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: ice bridges
  • Introduction: way finders
  • Star gazers
  • Nature writers
  • Game changers
  • Blue moons
  • Epilogue: tree tops
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on sources and quotations
  • Further reading
  • Index.