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Women have been doing amazing, daring, and dangerous things for years, but they're rarely mentioned in our history books as adventurers, daredevils, or rebels. This new compilation of brief biographies features women throughout history who have risked their lives for adventure - many of who you may not know, but all of whom you'll WANT to know, such as: Minnie Spotted Wolf, the first Native American marine; Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to...
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"Before the elaborate tales of chivalry and romance with which the epic of King Arthur remains associated (best known in the form in which Thomas Malory compiled them a thousand years after Arthur's time), there were other tales, by turns brutal, dark and amusing. These stories were told by wandering Celtic bards and presented an altogether more savage figure than the familiar high king with his round table of noble knights. Leading Arthurian scholar...