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Skidmore, Colleen (editor) This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
Edmonton, AB, Canada The University of Alberta Press 2006 0888644663 / 9780888644664 First Edition Trade Paperback New
August 3, 2008 - this book is temporarily out of print and not available to order at this time. In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her life’s passion: "A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow’s conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood . . . I can hardly wait to be off again." Vaux’s compulsion was one shared by many women whose intellects, imaginations, and spirits rose to the challenge of the mountains between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of women’s creative responses in photographs and painting, , embroidery and beadwork, novels and travel writing, letters and diaries, poetry, plays, and posters to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. This Wild Spirit is a portable archives of the best writing that women have done about the golden age of discoveyr and adventure in the Caniadna Rockies. It’s a remarkable book. Read it in a national park campground, late at night, as the bears wander by.
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34.95 CDN
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