Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man's World

For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic quests. This book traces the lives of five women who fought against prejudice for their right to work in, enjoy and help save the earth's wild places. -- .

About the author

Sarah Lonsdale is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City, University of London. She is the author of the books Rebel Women between the Wars (2020) and The Journalist in British Fiction and Film (2016) and writes for the Times Literary Supplement, History Today and the Sunday Times.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Lonsdale, Lonsdale Sarah
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 07.04.2026
• EAN: 9781526195067
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9506-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Illustrations: 32 black & white illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport; NATURE / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Collected biographies, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Women, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Sports & outdoor recreation, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Biography: adventurers and explorers, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General