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Heart of the Hero: The Remarkable Women Who Inspired the Great Polar Explorers

In Heart of the Hero – The Remarkable Women Who Inspired the Great Polar Explorers – Kari Herbert turns the spotlight on the wives of the superstars of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Herbert, drawing from original sources and descendants’™ accounts, tells the untold stories of sculptor Kathleen Scott, traveller Jane Franklin, poet Eleanor Anne Franklin, Jo Peary, the first white woman to travel in the high Arctic, tenacious Emily Shackleton, Norwegian singer Eva Nansen and the author’™s own mother adventurer Marie Herbert. The book brings to the fore the crucial role these women played, whether they inspired their husbands, followed them or supported them through publicity, securing sponsors, or even financing their expeditions. The material reveals the characters as separate individuals through each others eyes as well as through the relationships between them. All different in their development, they all shared the trials of the physical and mental hardship, the longing, the betrayal and celebrated the adventure and bravery.Heart of the Hero is a compelling and fascinating book about real men and women bonded by marriage and sharing the excitement as well as the danger and difficulties of the explorers of the golden age of polar discovery.

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