At Women on Adventure, we celebrate the extraordinary stories of historic female adventurers. Through beautifully illustrated editions and insightful forewords, we bring their autobiographical accounts to life—providing fresh context about their journeys, legacies, and the worlds they defied. Rediscover the daring women who shaped history, one adventure at a time.
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How did I get to this point, speaking to you now from the words of the device cradled in your hands, or glowing from a vertical screen? It would be best explained using a flowchart, but we'll avoid that for now, in favour of a Hollywood-esque precis (that is, somewhat inaccurate, but full of feeling):
Girl likes book, quite a lot in fact. The relationship is solid. When Girl finishes the book, she immediately casts about for further writings of the type, asks the book if it has any attractive friends with similar interests, and so on. Wikipedia lists may have been referenced, in the initial throes of lust.
Girl discovers an entire ocean of incredible writing by women adventurers: travelers, scientists, sportswomen, journalists, hunters, pilgrims, cartographers, spies, soldiers, mountaineers, archaelogists and the wanderlusty. Many went on the road less traveled, but some of them laughed at roads and signs, before forging ahead, straight into the thick of the forest, leaving the path behind entirely, the bushes closing over their footprints. Where have they been all my life? She wonders. How can they have been so invisible? How did we forgot them?
Being both a modern person (i.e., one who needs to pay rent, buy foods and continue to afford decent dentistry) and an optimist (i.e., one who expects everyone to be as excited about new discoveries as she is), Girl wonders how to both monetize and popularise this wonderful world of adventure.
Girl begins highlighting her favourite parts - the parts which make her laugh out loud with amusement, or shock her into awed silence for whole minutes at a time, or swallow hard because life can be terrible and people can be both beautiful and brutal, sometimes within the same brief moment. They lived.
Finally, after summarising books (over 70 of them) until eyestrain quits merely threatening and launches a full retinal attack, Girl begins to assemble these highlights into themes. It's the commonality of human experience that Girl wants to use as the touchstone of Women on Adventure: regardless of where you are in the world, you will need to eat, require places to sleep, see animals, encounter perils. There will be liminal zones, where you hover between transport, or between countries, neither asleep nor awake on transport entrusted to unknown hands. You might meet calamities. You will meet people. Shopping may occur, if it can't be avoided. Mountains certainly will. They should never be avoided.