{"product_id":"undreamed-shores-frances-larson-9781783783342","title":"Undreamed Shores: Five Women Who Sought Out the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe inspiring story of five women who set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe and redefine scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first decades of the 20th century, five women - Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco - arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters in Anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough their circumstances differed radically, all were intent on visiting and studying remote communities a world away from their own. Through their work, they resisted the prejudices of the male establishment, proving that women could be explorers and scientists, too. In the wastes of Siberia; in the villages and pueblos of the Nile and New Mexico; on Easter Island; and in the uncharted interior of New Guinea, they found new freedoms - yet when they returned to England, loss, madness and self-doubt awaited them.\u003cbr\u003eFrances Larson's masterful group biography is a revelatory portrait of five hidden heroines of British scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances Larson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783783346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783783342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Granta Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Frances Larson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46140833366271,"sku":"9781783783342","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df853d5e-ddb7-464f-a427-eb5188bab5db.jpg?v=1726597163","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/undreamed-shores-frances-larson-9781783783342","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}