Overview

Do you know how it feels to run for 1,900 miles? Or to look down at the earth from a space station? Or to swim alongside a hungry shark? Fantastic Female Adventurers by Lily Dyu is a collection of fourteen exciting and inspirational stories about the women that do. Follow them on their incredible journeys around the globe. Ski to the North Pole with Ann Daniels while watching out for polar bears and lethal cracks in the ice. Feel the air beneath your feet as you climb high on a cliff face with Gwen Moffat. Experience the thrill of racing down rocky Himalayan trails with champion runner Mira Rai. Sail the oceans with Ellen MacArthur, the girl who saved up her lunch money to buy her first boat. You’ll even fly into space with Britain’s first astronaut, Helen Sharman. And join Lily on other awesome adventures with Anna McNuff, Sarah Outen, Misba Khan and more – taking you from Everest to the South Pole and all the places in between. Beautifully illustrated by artist and adventurer Chellie Carroll, Fantastic Female Adventurers will leave you thinking: I can do that, too!

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Author:   Lily Dyu ,  Chellie Carroll
Publisher:   Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781912560172

ISBN 10:   1912560178
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   03 October 2019
Recommended Age:   From 8 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Lily Dyu – Introduction2. Ann Daniels – Adventures with the Ice Queen3. Mira Rai – Mira the Mighty Mountain Runner4. Jin Jeong – The Dancing Lights of Lapland5. Gwen Moffat – Living the High Life6. Beth French – The Water Baby Who Grew Up to Be a Mermaid7. Misba Khan – From North-West England to the North Pole8. Karen Darke – In Camels’ Footsteps on the Great Silk Road9. Sarah Outen – Kayaking on the Ring of Fire10. Anna McNuff – Run, Anna, Run11. Ellen MacArthur – An Ocean Obsession12. Emma Timmis – The ElliptiGO Explorer13. Tori James – From Wales to the Top of the World14. Helen Sharman – The World Outside my WindowMore about the Fantastic Female AdventurersAcknowledgementsReferences

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Lily Dyu is an author and freelance journalist with a passion for the outdoors, wild places and nature. Her adventures have seen her cycling in Ladakh on the loftiest roads of the Himalaya, running across England, Scotland and Wales, and also around Manaslu – the eighth highest mountain in the world. Lily studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge. After a successful career in technology – while writing in her free time – she retrained as a journalist. Through her writing, she loves to share her love of the outdoors and wonder for the natural world. She has written widely for magazines and journals and is the author of Fastpacking: Multi-Day Running Adventures and Brecon Beacons Trail Running. Her books for children include Fantastic Female Adventurers, and Earth Heroes (Nosy Crow), inspirational stories about people like Greta Thunberg who are changing the world.

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