Lorie Karnath: A President of Explorers
“When I first landed in Antarctica”: Chronogram Magazine, April 26, 2010.
“I have five words that I think our activity”: National Geographic Magazine, March 16, 2001.
PART I: CALLED BY MOUNTAINS
Annie Smith Peck: A Woman Above Them All
“Men, we all know, climb in knickerbockers”: Outing, 1901.
“My allegiance previously given”: Women of the Four Winds, 1985, page 11.
“My next thought was”: Ibid., 1985, page 16.
“The immense glacier below”: Ibid., 1985, page 33.
“A horrible nightmare”: Ibid., 1985, page 55.
“$13,000 seems a large sum”: A Search for the Apex of America, 1911, page 367.
“Miss Peck would make almost anyone”: http://anniesmithpeck.org/2012/12/16/firsts-in-flight-the-wright-brothers-amelia-earhart-and-annie-smith-peck/.
Rosaly Lopes: Where Passion Leads
“I was always”: http://volcanoworld.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/rosaly-lopes.
“In one evening, Etna taught me that”: The Volcano Adventure Guide, 2005, page 217.
“He told me I couldn’t understand”: http://volcanoworld.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/rosaly-lopes.
“The lake appears”: Ibid.
“I think that anyone”: Ibid.
Constanza Ceruti: Climbing Sacred Mountains with a Humble Heart
“When I was about 14 I climbed a hill”: http://sciencefriday.com/blogs/02/04/2011/constanza-ceruti-high-altitude-archaeologist.html.
“I felt completely whole and fulfilled”: Ibid.
“Few mountain climbers will”: www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/constanza-ceruti.
“Just think of the Incas”: Ibid.
“The boy was wearing a typical male poncho”: http://sciencefriday.com/blogs/02/04/2011/constanza-ceruti-high-altitude-archaeologist.html.
“It is so humbling”: www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/constanza-ceruti.
“I feel wonderful when I am in the mountains”: http://sciencefriday.com/blogs/02/04/2011/constanza-ceruti-high-altitude-archaeologist.html.
“Just think of the”: www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/constanza-ceruti.
Sophia Danenberg: Reaching the Highest Summit
“It’s a very easy mountain”: Chicago Tribune, February 1, 2008.
“He was near the top”: Chicago Reader, July 13, 2006, http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/up-everest-quietly/Content?oid=922604.
“Each mountain I climbed”: Flaimahmy.com, December 17, 2009, www.flaimahmy.com/2009/12/17/sophia-danenberg-on-top-of-the-world.
“A lot of people seem driven by ego”: Chicago Tribune, February 1, 2008.
“I wasn’t sort of thinking, ‘Yeah, I’m going”: Ibid.
“Between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. the weather”: Flaimahmy.com, December 17, 2009, www.flaimahmy.com/2009/12/17/sophia-danenberg-on-top-of-the-world.
“So I was like, cool, I made it”: Chicago Reader, July 13, 2006, www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/up-everest-quietly/Content?oid=922604.
“On the real Mount Everest and on the Expedition”: Chicago Reader, July 13, 2006, www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/up-everest-quietly/Content?oid=922604.
PART II: SEEKING NATURE
Marianne North: Picturing Nature
“My horse was … very bony and old”: Abundant Beauty, page 60.
“constant succession of holes”: A Vision of Eden, page 163.
“He was from first to last the one idol”: Ibid., page 18.
“almost impossible to leave off”: Ibid., page 235.
“I am a very wild bird”: The Telegraph, March 20, 2009.
In her journal she stated: A Vision of Eden, page 48.
“I had a long day’s work in that lovely forest”: Ibid., page 86.
“villainous-looking bandit”: Ibid., page 86.
She described the forest: Ibid., page 99.
Martha Maxwell: Exploring Wildlife in the Rockies
“She would crawl though underbrush”: Women in the Field, page 37.
“Clothes damp, boots hard”: Martha Maxwell, Rocky Mountain Naturalist, page 81.
“We went by land and lived”: Ibid., page 9.
“continual feast”: Ibid., page 24.
“that soon he could claim her”: Ibid., page 42.
“thick frock falling below the knee”: Women in the Field, page 37.
Ynes Mexia: In Pursuit of Unknown Flora
“I found the luxuriance”: Madrono, September 27, 1929, page 227.
“The collecting was very good”: Women in the Field, page 107.
“I jump into boots and khaki”: Sierra Club Bulletin, February 1933, page 90.
“tossed about like a straw”: Ibid., page 95.
“while the smoke was annoying”: Ibid., page 96.
Margaret Lowman: Life in the Treetops
“The village shaman said that if the spirits were”: Life in the Treetops, page 18.
“I did not intend to climb trees”: Ibid., page 15.
“My notebooks are full of numbers”: News & Observer, March 30, 2012, page 2.
“My childhood aspirations had come true”: Life in the Treetops, page 130.
Pamela Rasmussen: Birding Across Continents
“Pam would open the book and say”: New Yorker, May 29, 2006, page 52.
“There we’d be freezing”: Ibid.
“The job seemed like it was”: Ibid., page 53.
“I thought to myself, if he went”: Ibid., page 54.
“You can imagine the thrill”: Birds of India, March 2011, www.kolkata birds.com/paminterview.htm.
Kate Jackson: In Quest of Scaly, Slimy Creatures
“It is just in my character”: Harvard Magazine, March-April 2006.
“Our sensible babysitter scolded me”: Mean and Lowly Things, page 90.
“He was the kind of”: Ibid., page 12.
“It was a virtual blank spot”: Ibid., page 14.
“Kate isn’t brave, she is reckless”: Telephone interview with Kate Jackson, March 17, 2012.
Aparajita Datta: Vanishing Wildlife and Forgotten People
“We are up at four”: www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/aparajita-datta.
“I finally translated my dreams of studying ecology into reality”: http://ncf-india.academia.edu/AparajitaDatta.
“No time for tea”: Wildlife Conservation Magazine, May-June 2005, page 1.
“It is impossible to convince tribal”: www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/aparajita-datta.
“The only way Namdapha can survive”: Down to Earth, September 15, 2005, page 49.
“Often, an entire day’s walk”: www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/aparajita-datta.
“Don’t ever lose your curiosity”: http://explore.wingsworldquest.org/aparajita_datta
PART III: EXPLORING THE WORLD’S WATERS
Eleanor Creesy: She Sets the Course
“Her skills are considered”: www.maritimeheritage.org/ships/clippers .html.
“The beautiful vessel”: www.sailmsc.com/Boats/club/flying_cloud.htm.
“We have passed the Equator”: http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/eleanor-creesy-fastest-sailing-ships-ever-built-125026174/116534.html.
Kay Cottee: Alone on the High Seas
“I had firmly decided on”: First Lady, page 23.
“I started fitting it out between odd”: Ibid., page 11.
“I looked out over the bow”: Ibid., page 43.
“The sky was ink black”: Ibid., pages 116–117.
Edie Widder: Into the Deep, Dark Sea
“Little dots like fairy dust, splats like puffs of liquid”: Discover Magazine, May 29, 2004.
“Suddenly, I was”: www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/the-beauty-of-ugly/interview-dr-edith-widder/426.
“There were explosions”: Ibid.
“All these things are noisy”: Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 26, 2006, page 3.
“The Navy wanted to know how”: Discover Magazine, May 29, 2004, page 3.
“Exactly 86 seconds after we turned it on”: Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 26, 2006, page 3.
“All of us were so amazed”: Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2013, page 1.
Jill Fredston: Rowing Along Cold Coasts
“I just launched my boat”: Rowing to Latitude, page 4.
“I do know, from the moment “: Ibid., page 6.
“We became one long, gasping”: Ibid., page 10.
“A good rowing stroke is fluid, circular”: Ibid., page 10.
“The river speaks a language rich in verbs”: Ibid., page 104.
Stephanie Schwabe: Diving into the Dark Frontier
“You feel like the clutter of the surface”: Geotimes, July 2008, page 1.
“Could a person with the life-long”: Living in Darkness, page 16.
“In that short period of time”: Ibid., page 16.
“It was like my spirit had”: Ibid., page 102.
“I saw recently that”: Herald-Leader, March 15, 2011.
PART IV: LONG TREKS
Isabella Bird Bishop: Health, Horses, Adventure
“My pack, with my”: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, page 56.
“the mightiest volcano”: Victorian Lady Travellers, page 23.
“leaping from rock to rock”: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, page 107
“He is a man any woman”: Victorian Lady Travellers, page 34.
“the appetite of a tiger”: Ibid., page 39.
“hard, hungry, silver-grey Arab”: Ibid., page 41.
“shrieking, yelling, and juggling”: Ibid., page 48.
“evil glare in his eyes”: Ibid., page 48.
Annie Kopchovsky “Londonderry”: Pedaling Around the World with Chutzpah
“I stand and rejoice every time”: Around the World on Two Wheels, page 142.
“I didn’t want to spend my life at”: Ibid., page 12.
“sailed away like a kite”: The Christian Science Monitor, August 28, 2009.
“Although I’ve cheek enough to go”: Around the World on Two Wheels, page 42.
“a ‘30 mile spin’ around the city”: Ibid., page 71.
Helga Estby: The Long Walk Across America
“We were told at the start we would never”: Bold Spirit, page 99.
“given both herself and her daughter”: Ibid., page 107.
“They had been lost in forests”: Ibid., page 129.
Freya Stark: A Fashionable Nomad
this initial “moment of emancipation”: A Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark, page 22.
“This is the great moment”: Valley of the Assassins, page 170.
“The greatest and almost”: A Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark, page 106.
Alexandra David-Néel: Seeking the Unknown
“I craved to go beyond the”: My Journey to Lhasa, page xvii.
awed by the “calm solitudes”: My Journey to Lhasa, page xxxiii.
“Any honest traveler”: Ibid., page xxxix.
“People whose hearts are not”: Ibid., page 32.
“The majestic Kha Karpo towering”: Ibid., page 3.
“Now we could discern the elegant”: Ibid., page 255.
Helen Thayer: Facing Fear in the Far North
“One part of me wanted to go”: Polar Dream, page 34.
“They told me”: Historylink.org, August 12, 2011, www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9848.
“The Arctic has rammed everything down my throat”: Polar Dream, page 208.
“I want them to say”: HistoryLink.org, August 12, 2011, www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9848.
Kira Salak: Discoveries in Two Worlds
“I always needed to be gone”: Four Corners, page 10.
“Traveling could allow me”: Ibid., page 17.
“The jungle unfolds us in its tangled”: Ibid., page 247.
“a real life Lara Croft”: www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/kira-salak.
“it had become a ‘fickle parent’”: The Cruelest Journey, page 91.
“When they say I can’t”: www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/kira-salak.