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Women explorers of the mountains

by Margo McLoone, Kathryn Besio · 1999

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Discusses the lives and accomplishments of five women who traveled and explored the mountainous regions of the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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womenwomenMore like thisLess of this
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childrens
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short · 48 pages

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