Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels
Linda Skeers, illustrated by Livi Gosling
This second collection contains fifty-two short biographies of women who took risks in pursuit of adventure. Its subjects include adventurers, athletes, inventors, pilots, sailors, and performers from different times and places. Among them are Katherine Cheung, the first Chinese woman to earn an international flying license; Laura Dekker, who sailed around the world alone at a young age; and Katharina Paulus, a parachute performer and inventor of the first collapsible parachute.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 2 editions.
