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BKLYN Bookmatch: Adventures, Survival Stories, and Travelogues by Women

For fans of INTO THIN AIR, INTO THE WILD, and INTO THE HEART OF THE SEA. This list was created by a librarian with the Brooklyn Public Library for a reader. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit Bklyn BookMatch here: www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/readers-advisory

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Mexican enough
Stephanie Elizondo Griest.
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Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core.

The life and adventures of Calamity Jane
by Calamity Jane (pseud. Marthy Cannary Burke).
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Bombay Anna
Susan Morgan.
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Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands
Mary Seacole ; with an introduction by William L. Andrews.
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Mountain to mountain
Shannon Galpin.
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Living with cannibals and other women's adventures
Michele Slung ; foreword by Reeve Lindbergh.
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Covered wagon women
edited & compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes.
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Victorian lady on the Texas frontier
edited by C. Richard King.
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Plains woman
edited by Marlene Springer and Haskell Springer.
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Best of Covered wagon women
edited by Kenneth L. Holmes ; with a new introduction by Michael L. Tate.
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