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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Kafarowski, Joanna.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kafarowski, Joanna.       by title:      The polar adventures...       by call number:      919.804 B789k     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Biography 919.804 B789k Adult books Transit Request Add Copy to MyList

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