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The author was a small-town girl a year out of the University of Wisconsin when she married Alonzo Pond, a young archaeologist just back from a year in the Sahara. It was the 1920s. American women had won the right to vote and were launching out on non-traditional ventures. Museums were sponsoring expeditions in search of clues to humanity's distant past. Dorothy L. Pond provides a colorful and wide-ranging account of her experiences as a woman on early scientific expeditions in North Africa, twice accompanied by her toddler daughter. She describes both the mundane and the exotic from a woman's point of view, from the daily of work of archaeology and trips to the local markets to moonlight strolls through Roman ruins.
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Dorothy (Long) Pond, a 1925 graduate of the University of Wisconsin (B.A., Economics), and Alonzo Pond, a young archaeologist, fell in love through letters while he was on an expedition in the Sahara. Immediately after their wedding, they left for another Algerian expedition. She became his partner in archaeology, tourism businesses, radio broadcasting, and writing. She edited and typed his manuscripts for publication. She lectured on their travels and on natural history and published childhood memories. When Alonzo's work kept him away for months at a time, she was the sole homemaker for their children, Chomingwen and Arthur.
