Kankimaki Mia
Kankimaki Mia - The Women I Think About At Night Traveling The Paths Of My Heroes - Paperback
Kankimaki Mia - The Women I Think About At Night Traveling The Paths Of My Heroes - Paperback
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Description: In this thought - provoking blend of history biography women's studies and travelogue (Library Journal) Mia Kankim ki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan Kenya and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty - something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck Mia Kankim ki leaves her job sells her apartment and decides to travel the world following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen of Out of Africa fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola Lavinia Fontana and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago why can t Mia? The Women I Think About at Night is an astute entertaining and insightful (Publishers Weekly) exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see and change the world.
Title: The Women I Think About At Night Traveling The Paths Of My Heroes
Author(s): Kankimaki Mia
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982129200
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 12/7/2021
Category: Travel Writing
Description: In this thought - provoking blend of history biography women's studies and travelogue (Library Journal) Mia Kankim ki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan Kenya and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty - something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck Mia Kankim ki leaves her job sells her apartment and decides to travel the world following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen of Out of Africa fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola Lavinia Fontana and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago why can t Mia? The Women I Think About at Night is an astute entertaining and insightful (Publishers Weekly) exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see and change the world.
Title: The Women I Think About At Night Traveling The Paths Of My Heroes
Author(s): Kankimaki Mia
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982129200
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 12/7/2021
Category: Travel Writing
