The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame: A Life of Louise Arner Boyd
Joanna Kafarowski$21.24
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The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd -- the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century.
Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York's distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era.
After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dundurn Group
Published: 11/28/2017
ISBN: 9781459739703
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/11/2017
Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York's distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era.
After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dundurn Group
Published: 11/28/2017
ISBN: 9781459739703
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/11/2017