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Kafarowski, Joanna.
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Boyd, Louise Arner, 1887-1972.
Women explorers -- United States -- Biography.
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Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American.
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Kafarowski, Joanna.
Boyd, Louise Arner, 1887-1972.
Women explorers -- United States -- Biography.
Women adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
Rich people -- United States -- Biography.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American.
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The polar adventures of a rich American dame : a life of Louise Arner Boyd / Joanna Kafarowski.
by
Kafarowski, Joanna.
Dundurn, 2017.
Call #:
919.804 B789k
Subjects
Boyd, Louise Arner, 1887-1972.
Women
explorers
--
United
States
--
Biography
.
Women
adventurers
--
United
States
--
Biography
.
Philanthropists
--
United
States
--
Biography
.
Rich people
--
United
States
--
Biography
.
Arctic regions
--
Discovery and exploration
--
American.
ISBN:
9781459739703 (pbk.)
Description:
367 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-357) and index.
Summary:
"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. She was presented at the British royal court, and travelled in genteel style from one dazzling capital to another. After inheriting a staggering family fortune while only in her thirties, 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 philanthropist and society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today"--Provided by publisher.
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