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"In the tradition of Workman's Every Body Yoga, we're bringing a proud, plus-sized, body-positive attitude to the world of hiking and outdoor recreation. Summer Michaud-Skog, founder of the Fat Girls Hiking community, offers a book brimming with heartfelt stories, practical advice, personal profiles of FGH community members, and trail reviews. It all serves to spread the Fat Girls Hiking message of inclusivity in the outdoors. Equal parts empowering...
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"An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white...
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[2016]
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xiv, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm
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Outdoorswoman, geologist, writer and dancer, McConnell was raised in the urban landscape of Portland, Oregon, but thanks to a mother who ordered her to “go outside and play” year-round and sent her to summer-camp, being outdoors became second nature. As she grew older and spent more time in the outdoors she encountered gender bias and the jeers of men, but persevered and discovered that men are no better (or worse) equipped than women to survive...
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