An appetite for adventure - The Hindu thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mondialisation, déclin industriel, essais nucléaires, services publics, agriculture…, la BD nous parle de la société contemporaine. Si vous êtes en quête de lecture pour cet été, vous devriez trouver votre bonheur parmi cette sélection de 15 bandes dessinées parues au cours des derniers mois.
L’été, c’est fait pour buller. Alors quoi de mieux que de se plonger dans une bande dessinée. Surtout quand c’est l’occasion de mieux comprendre le monde qui vous entoure. Voici une sélection faite par la rédaction pour s’y retrouver dans les rayons de votre libraire. Sans oublier, bien sûr, la propre BD d’Alternatives Economiques,
Posted on June 6, 2021 | Views: 29
cwebb2021-06-05T19:39:49-07:00
by Matt Hickman: Although climbing mountains, documenting exotic lands and traversing some of Mother Nature’s most extreme landscapes might not be considered gender-exclusive activities today…
they were once very much the endeavors of men only. Well, men and a select handful of tenacious women who saw beyond their prescribed societal roles and just went out and did it.
We’ve rounded up several notable female adventurers of the 19th and early 20th centuries who blazed the trail, sometimes literally, for their modern counterparts.
Isabella Bird (1831-1904)
You could say the life of perpetually on-the-move socialite turned globetrotting adventurer turned missionary Isabella Bird served as one big, eye-opening geography lesson for Victorian England. It’s only fitting, then, that after decades of bouncing from continent to continent, Bird became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical So