Books by Women and about Women, Wildlife and the Outdoors

Compiled by Lena Conlan, Crossing Latitudes
http://www.crossinglatitudes.com

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Rowing to Latitude
By Jill Fredston
North Point Press ISBN: 0-374-28180-7

Keep It Moving
By Valerie Fons

A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic
By E.C. Pielou
The University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-66813-4

Rivers Running Free, Stories of Adventurous Women
Edited by Judith Niemi and Barbara Wieser
Two in the Far North
By Margaret E. Muire
Alaska Northwest Books
ISBN: 0-88240-111-4
Miles From Nowhere - A Round-the-World Bicycle Adventure
By Barbara Savage
puclished 1983
The Moon by Whale Light
By Diane Ackerman
Random House Inc
ISBN: 0-394-58574-7
Desert Places - "A Womena's Odyssey with the Wandereres of the Indian Desert"
By Robyn Davidson

Shooting the Boh
By Tracy Johnston
Vintage Books
ISBN: 0-679-74010-4

Down the Wild River North
By Constance Helmericks - 1968
Canoeing with her two teenage daughters on the Peace, Slave and Mackenzie River Systems in Northern Canada, to the Arctic Ocean
Letters from Yellowstone
By Diane Smith
Viking, Penguin Group
ISBN: 0-670-88631-9
Arctic Daughter & Arctic Son (two different books)
By Jean Aspen
Cast Again: Tales of a Fly-Fishing Guide
By Jennifer Smith Olson
Lyons Press
Without a Guide-Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures - edited by Katherine Govier
Reel Women: The World of Women Who Fish
By Lyla Foggia
Beyond Words Publishing
The Climb of My Life
By Laura Evans (founder of Expedition Inspiration, where she led 16 other breast cancer survivors up Mount Aconcagua in Argentina) 1996
The High-Country Backpacker
By Dona Agosti
Annapurna - A Woman's Place
By Arlene Blum
A Woman's World - Travelers' Tales
By Marybeth Bond
Midnight Wilderness: Journeys in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
By Debbie Miller
Season of Adventure-Traveling Tales and Outdoor Journeys of Women Over 50
Edited by Jean Gould 1996
Women Warriors
J. Davis Kendell
Northern Kayak Horizons-the water and the ice are never the same
By Gail E. Ferris,
Email: gaileferris@hotmail.com
http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/Trips/Gail/GailFerris.html
http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/Building/GailPaddles/GreenlandPaddles.html
http://www.stony-creek.com/gailpage.html
Paddling My Own Canoe
By Audrey Sutherland
Silent Spring
By Rachael Carlson
About toxic Waste and its effects on wildlife.
My Double Life
By Frances Hamerstrom