Girl Explorers: Untold Story of the Globetrotting Book

For fans of Kate Moore and Nathalia Holt, The Girl Explorers is the exciting story of several women who broke apart the stuffy men’s club of exploration and made their own contributions to science and art by traveling the world in America’s period of expansion and discovery. 416 pages/hardcover. In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that “women are not adapted to exploration,” and that women and exploration do not mix. He obviously didn’t know a thing about either... The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers—an organization of adventurous female world explorers—and how key members served as early advocates for human rights and paved the way for today’s women scientists by scaling mountains, exploring the high seas, flying across the Atlantic, and recording the world through film, sculpture, etc.