A Treasury Of Foolishly Forgotten Americans (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
But Louise Arner Boyd was far from a pampered blue blood who liked to play adventuress. The numerous expeditions she led to the frozen North yielded a valuable photographic record of a region almost as alien as the lunar landscape, and earned her recognition from some of the most prestigious scientific societies. There’s even a spot on the map that attests to her impressive accomplishments—a previously uncharted area of Greenland that she discovered and which now bears her name: Weisboydlund (Miss Boyd Land).Born into fabulous wealth in 1887, Louise enjoyed all the privileges of an American aristocrat. But tragedy intruded when her two brothers passed away from rheumatic fever and both of her parents died within a year of each other. Left alone in the world at age thirty-two with a fortune to realize whatever she dreamed of doing, she stumbled upon her life’s passion in 1924 while on a cruise from Norway to the frozen archipelago of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Sea.“Far north, hidden behind grim barriers of pack ice are lands that hold one spellbound,”
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