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Michael Collins

By: Robert Wringham

The remotest and loneliest astronaut.

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Patty Wagstaff

By: Alix Lambert

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

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Freya Stark

By: Elina Shatkin

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

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Annie Smith Peck

By: Elina Shatkin

She scaled mountains wearing forbidden trousers.

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Isabella Lucy Bird

By: Elina Shatkin

She developed a pathological aversion to her native England.

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Mary Kingsley

By: Elina Shatkin

An astute proto-ethnologist attired in full Victorian garb.

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Louise Arner Boyd

By: Elina Shatkin

“Ice does eerie things,” she said.

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Gertrude Bell

By: Elina Shatkin

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

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Redmond O’Hanlon

By: Anthony Miller

An explorer in an age with ever fewer frontiers.

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Katia Krafft

By: Elina Shatkin

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

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Jane Digby

By: Elina Shatkin

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

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Richard Francis Burton

By: Anthony Miller

A resolute seeker of forbidden knowledge.

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Osa Helen Johnson

By: Elina Shatkin

She married adventure, but made it her own.

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Hester Lucy Stanhope

By: Elina Shatkin

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

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Neta Snook

By: Elina Shatkin

The aviatrix who taught Amelia Earhart how to fly.

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