Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (Norton Shorts) Binding:Paperback How Far the Light Reaches

How Far the Light Reaches is a shimmering

written with a rare combination of give and sharpness

Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race

where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier

from the Foreword

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (Norton Shorts) Binding:Paperback How Far the Light ReachesHarriet 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 teams of the 1904 World's Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context