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Polar wives : the remarkable women behind the world's most daring explorers / Kari Herbert ; foreword by Jon Bowermaster.
- Title
- Polar wives : the remarkable women behind the world's most daring explorers / Kari Herbert ; foreword by Jon Bowermaster.
- Author
- Herbert, Kari, 1970-
- Publication
- Vancouver : Greystone Books, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | G245 .H47 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Lehman, Ellen J., 1944-
- Description
- 349 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Presents the stories of seven wives of polar explorers, detailing the essential role the women played in supporting, publicizing, defending, and even financing their husbands' endeavors.
- Subjects
- Biographies
- Régions polaires > Découverte et exploration > Britanniques
- Femmes mariées > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies
- Explorateurs > Conjoints > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies
- Polar regions > Discovery and exploration > British
- Wives > Great Britain > Biography
- Explorers' spouses > Great Britain > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 343-347.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A restless companion -- Love and labour -- Darkest days -- A hero, my husband.
- ISBN
- 9781926812625
- 192681262X
- 9781926812632 (ebook)
- 1926812638 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2012398800
- OCLC
- 778189792
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library