Peak practices: Englishwomen's 'Heroic' adventures in the nineteenth-century American West

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 489-514

  Morin, Karen M ^a  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

British imperialism; Feminism; Mountaineering; Travel writing; Victorian women

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATION; GENDER ISSUE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032759027     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00159     Document Type: Article

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