Bibliograph

A woman's place is at the top, a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers, Hannah Kimberley

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A woman's place is at the top, a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers, Hannah Kimberley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-347)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A woman's place is at the top

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

990182181

Responsibility statement

Hannah Kimberley

Sub title

a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers

Summary

Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn at the age of forty-five - not for her daring alpine feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later, she was the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascarán (21,831 feet) in Peru. In 1911, just before her sixtieth birthday, she entered a race with Hiram Bingham (the model for Indiana Jones) to climb Mount Coropuna. A Woman's Place Is at the Top: The Biography of Annie Smith Peck is the first full length work about this incredible woman who single-handedly carved her place on the map of mountain climbing and international relations. Peck marched in suffrage parades and became a political speaker and writer before women had the right to vote. She was a propagandist, an expert on North-South American relations, and an author and lecturer contracted to speak as an authority on multinational industry and commerce before anyone had ever thought to appoint a woman as a diplomat. With unprecedented access to Peck's original letters, artifacts, and ephemera, Hannah Kimberley brings Peck's entire life to the page for the first time, giving Peck her rightful place in history

Table Of Contents

Providence -- The dangerous experiment -- Who ought to have been a boy -- Unmerited notoriety -- Search for the apex of America -- Almost, but not quite -- Born, not made -- It's just a walk -- Don't call me a woman climber -- You could not stop it if you would -- Uncommon glory

Target audience

adult

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