Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman Gardening Design 21 hands-on activities

21 hands-on activities

Nicolas Freeling here displays yet another side of his original mind in these "enviably perceptive and lyrical" essays (Kirkus) on other players in the same field

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Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman Gardening Design 21 hands-on activitiesFanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a helmet, Workman was a force on and off the mountain. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan mountain climbing, this American woman climbed more peaks than any of her peers and became the first woman to map the far reaches of the Himalayas and the second