"In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow's conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood ... I can hardly wait to be off again." Vaux's compulsion was shared by many women whose intellects, imaginations, and spirits rose to the challenge of the mountains between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of women's creative responses--in fiction and travel writing, photographs and paintings, embroidery and beadwork, letters and diaries, poetry and posters--to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada"--
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ISBN:9780888644664
ISBN:0888644663 (pbk.) :
Physical Description:print xxix, 475 p. : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits ; 23 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, c2006.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes "Selected bibliography" (p. 455-464) and index.
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