Living with Cannibals and Other Womens Adventures

by Michele Slung

Book Overview

Drawn from more than one hundred years of first-person narratives from the collection of the National Geographic Society, a collection of firsthand accounts documents the accomplishments of women... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792276868
• ISBN13: 9780792276869
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Women Who Pushed The Limits

I enjoy non-fiction that promotes further subject matter investigation. Here's an easy-to-read compilation about women adventurers (from past to present) who in the author's own words, "push the limits." Michele Slung provides just enough biographical information to whet our appetites. She also includes a helpful bibliography and interesting historical timeline to augment further reading. Even if the book doesn't inspire you to go that far, the short stories will certainly entertain anyone looking for a quick, easy read. Each chapter highlighting a different woman explorer is very short. I wondered why the author chose some of the women adventurers that she did, but it was still a good representation of those who "enter another world."

Good overview of adventurous women -- past and present

This is a pretty quick read and very enjoyable. What I liked so much about this book is that while all these women have one thing in common -- adventure -- they all have their very own and very different approaches to it. From a single mom who takes her daughter through a foreign country, to women kayakers, to mountain climbers. All these women have found the one or two things they really loved (one lady loved India and also loved riding her bike so she rode her bike through India) and pursued it. Basically this book teaches you to find your thing, be proud of what it is you like to do as an individual - and go for it.

inspiring women's travel stories

This book is a collection of short true stories of women travelers and adventurers. (Some are modern and some are from previous centuries.) Many threw convention to the side to follow their dreams. I enjoyed it!

It's Easy to Identify with the Adventurers

The picture on the cover and the title made me think that this was going to be "A short superficial collection of stories about women adventurers," and probably adventures that wouldn't be worth mentioning were the people male. I was pleasantly surprised. Common themes are, "Ms. X from a very early age indicated that she wanted to travel" and "After living a conventional, homemaker life, at age 30+ Ms. X started traveling." The stories are written so that that one can readily identify with the adventurers, perhaps precisely because up until the time they start traveling their lives are so similar to people like me who are not. Like a prior reviewer, once I started the book I was hooked.

A Spectacular Adventure!

Pairing well known adventuresses with lesser known heroines makes this book a great read for those with various levels of familiarity with the history of women explorers. Delightful anecdotes are coupled with high adventure which kept me saying, "I will just read one more story..." until I found myself half way through the book in one sitting. This is a great book to read to your daughter.