Wildly Different by Sarah Lonsdale (Wetherby bookshop)

PLEASE NOTE BOOK & TICKET IS £20 not £11

For millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men

went on epic quests. In Wildly different, historian

Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who

fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to

save the earth’s wild places.

We’ll meet Mina Hubbard, who outraged the exploration

community when she stepped into a canoe in northern

Labrador. Evelyn Cheesman, who became the first female

keeper of insects at London Zoo. Dorothy Pilley, who shocked

polite society by donning men’s climbing breeches.

Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District

Britain’s first National Park. And Wangari Maathai, who started

a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa.

Drawing on interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Wangari

Maathai’s daughter and others, Lonsdale recounts the women’s

adventures across five continents. Evocative and inspiring,

this book shows how women can be ‘wildly different’.

Join Rebecca Coxon from Kemps in conversation with

Sarah about these fascinating women.

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