ADVENTURE DIVAS: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of…

ADVENTURE DIVAS: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine. by Morris, Holly. < >

ADVENTURE DIVAS: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Villard, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tells the stories of the remarkable women Morris encountered on the road while filming her PBS series 'Adventure Divas'. "We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhis chief of police, who revolutionized Indias infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the governments strict stance on art." Illustrated. List of resources. xx, 283 pp. ISBN: 0-375508279.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to rear flap of dj)

Book ID: 69147
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