Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation Ashland092023 and the Soviet Union

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“An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century

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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation Ashland092023 and the Soviet UnionA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library Best Book of 2023 An award winning 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 from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous womens basketball