Books, Music & Videos
Books by Author:
MacArthur, Ellen
See all of
Ellen MacArthur's books
Blum, Arlene
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life by Arlene Blum
In hiker's parlance, the person who "breaks trail" is one who leads others across difficult terrain, creating a path as they go. This aptly describes Blum's role, not only in her experiences as a climber, but also as a scientist doing innovative, groundbreaking work. Blum, whose previous book recounted the first women-only climb of Annapurna, here covers a cross section of her life as a climber, from her first experience, as a college student in 1964, to 1993, when she semiretired. Through climbing, she experiences a wide range of emotions, from exhilaration at success to grief over the death of friends. Interspersed between the climbing stories are scenes from her childhood that do much to explain the person she became. This is an engaging, well-written adventure that also serves as a social history of women's roles. It should be required reading for young women of today who haven't experienced the closed doors and closed minds that Blum conquered as a women student, scientist, and climber. Danise Hoover
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Buy this book>
See all of
Arlene Blum's Books
Bishop, Isabella Lucy (Bird)
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1899 edition by John Murray, London.
Buy this book >>
See all of
Isabella Bird's Books