Journalist and explorer Marguerite Harrison shares a meal with a group of Bakhtiari men. (From the documentary A Nation’s Battle for Life by Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack) BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES
In August 1923, Marguerite Harrison sailed from New York bound for Constantinople. The 44-year-old had returned just five months earlier from Russia where she had been imprisoned, for a second time, on suspicions of espionage. A widowed mother of a teenage boy, Harrison had thought she would…
Source: The Intrepid ’20s Women Who Formed an All-Female Global Exploration Society – Atlas Obscura
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‘Intrepid’ is the perfect word to describe the exploits of those brave ladies.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes. It doesn’t seem to get used very often these days, maybe because there aren’t many exploits that deserve such an epithet.
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