By: Robert Wringham

The remotest and loneliest astronaut.

By: Alix Lambert

She reminds us of the excitement and beauty inherent in aviation.

By: Elina Shatkin

She loved waking up, quite alone, in a strange town.

By: Elina Shatkin

She scaled mountains wearing forbidden trousers.

By: Elina Shatkin

She developed a pathological aversion to her native England.

By: Elina Shatkin

An astute proto-ethnologist attired in full Victorian garb.

By: Elina Shatkin

“Ice does eerie things,” she said.

By: Elina Shatkin

She was as complicated as the country she helped to found.

By: Anthony Miller

An explorer in an age with ever fewer frontiers.

By: Elina Shatkin

The two things she loved most: her husband and an exploding volcano.

By: Elina Shatkin

“A woman whose life’s poetry never sank to prose.”

By: Anthony Miller

A resolute seeker of forbidden knowledge.

By: Elina Shatkin

She married adventure, but made it her own.

By: Elina Shatkin

“I am the sun, the star, the earl, the lion, the light from heaven and the Queen.”

By: Elina Shatkin

The aviatrix who taught Amelia Earhart how to fly.