{"product_id":"9781783783342","title":"Undreamed Shores: Five Women Who Sought Out the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe inspiring story of five women who set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe and redefine scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first decades of the 20th century, five women - Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco - arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters in Anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough their circumstances differed radically, all were intent on visiting and studying remote communities a world away from their own. Through their work, they resisted the prejudices of the male establishment, proving that women could be explorers and scientists, too. In the wastes of Siberia; in the villages and pueblos of the Nile and New Mexico; on Easter Island; and in the uncharted interior of New Guinea, they found new freedoms - yet when they returned to England, loss, madness and self-doubt awaited them.\u003cbr\u003eFrances Larson's masterful group biography is a revelatory portrait of five hidden heroines of British scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42451745505341,"sku":"9781783783342","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781783783342_p0.jpg?v=1771563263","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781783783342","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}