Fantastic Female Adventurers

Lily Dhu (illustrated Chellie Carroll)

Shrine Bell

£12.99

Lily Dhu ‘the girl who hated sports at school’ introduces thirteen adventurers ranging from celebrities, such as Ellen MacArthur and Helen Sharman, to Mira Rai, the child soldier from Nepal who found her natural talent as a mountain runner. Devout Muslim Misha Khan from Manchester hadn’t even walked on the hills until she was forty: since then she has climbed Kilimanjaro and skied to the North Pole. Karen Darke, paralysed from the neck down, went handbiking in the Himalayas. Sarah Outen battled mental health problems as she rowed, kayaked and cycled round the world. Not everyone succeeds – sometimes it’s enough to have made the attempt. Although this book is presented for children, it offers inspiration for us all.