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The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame: A Life of Louise Arner Boyd

The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame: A Life of Louise Arner Boyd

Kafarowski, Joanna

Paperback

Adventurers & ExplorersBiographies GeneralArctic History

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1459739701
ISBN13: 9781459739703
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: Nov 28 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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