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Undreamed Shores Dr Frances Larson

Undreamed Shores von Dr Frances Larson

Undreamed Shores Dr Frances Larson


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Zusammenfassung

The extraordinary true story of five women who met in Oxford at the dawn of the 20th century, and set out to explore the furthest reaches of the known world

Undreamed Shores Zusammenfassung

Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology Dr Frances Larson

In the first decades of the 20th century, five women - Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco - arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters in Anthropology. Though their circumstances differed radically, all were intent on visiting and studying remote communities a world away from their own. Through their work, they resisted the prejudices of the male establishment, proving that women could be explorers and scientists, too. In the wastes of Siberia; in the villages and pueblos of the Nile and New Mexico; on Easter Island; and in the uncharted interior of New Guinea, they found new freedoms - yet when they returned to England, loss, madness and self-doubt awaited them. Frances Larson's masterful group biography is a revelatory portrait of five hidden heroines of British scholarship.

Undreamed Shores Bewertungen

'A deeply poignant account of five women who defied convention to pioneer female scholarship at immense personal cost. If you want to understand why there is so little historical evidence of women's intellectual achievement, read this. A devastating indictment of prejudice and how it held women back from achieving their potential' - Madeleine Bunting

'A vivid and moving history of a pioneering group of women, sensitively told and rigorously researched. Undreamed Shores is a compelling and memorable work' - Sarah Moss

Über Dr Frances Larson

Dr Frances Larson is the author of Severed, a Sunday Times Book Of The Year, and a biography of Henry Wellcome, An Infinity of Things, a Sunday Times Book of The Year and a New Scientist Best Book of 2009. She is an honorary research fellow at the University of Oxford.

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GOR011181191
9781783783328
178378332X
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology Dr Frances Larson
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
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Granta Books
20210304
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