A thirst for adventure, a deep desire to push themselves beyond their comfort zones, and innate curiosity about the world and its peoples fill the 10 biographies in Extraordinary Women Explorers.

The sixth book in the popular Women’s Hall of Fame Series includes photos and sidebars containing fun facts and quotes. Canadians, Americans, Inu, Native, French and Irish women walk, bike, climb, sail, ride donkeys, horses and camels as they explore tens of thousands of miles over four continents. Their insatiable curiosity, drive and sense of adventure propel them to discover the world around them and their own abilities and potential. As explorers they bring skills in cartography, geography, history, anthropology, botany, photography, linguistics and writing to their travels.

Their stories begin with Sacagawea, a Native guide in the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805, and end in the present, with Mattie McNair and Denise Martin, the Canadian leaders of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. These are stories of women who dare to push beyond their own communities in order to live their dreams.