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|title=How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer

|author=Mick Conefrey

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-1851688418

|pages=224

|publisher=Oneworld Publications

|date=October 2011

|summary=A very good, if bitty, look at female exploration throughout history.

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Scott, Amundsen, Bleriot, Stanley and Livingstone, John Glenn, et all - any child should be drummed out of school if they can't name half a dozen explorers, travel pioneers and adventurers. But give them a gold star if they can name a single female entrant to history's list. Hence this book, for while some mountains have been topped by a lady first of all, and some landmark achievements by the guys have been quickly followed by the gals, there is just too much ground to be made up in recognising what the fairer sex have done in the world of, well, going round our world.

File this next to [[A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire by Nicholas Murray]] - similar, in that it covers the history of travel and exploration in near-antiquity by disguise of an advise book.

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