Frances Rooney
Frances Rooney is a writer, editor, and spiritual director who lives in Toronto. Her books include Working Light: The Wandering Life of Photographer Edith S. Watson (published in Canada, the U.S. and Britain) and Our Lives (finalist for the Lambda Award). Frances has written two books for the Women's Hall of Fame Series - her first was Extraordinary Women Explorers.
Previous titles by Frances Rooney
Exceptional Women Environmentalists
From Rachel Carson, the woman who started the modern environmental movement, to Severn Cullis-Suzuki, former host of Suzuki's Nature Quest, to Marina Silva, who fights to keep the Brazilian rain fo...
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Extraordinary Women Explorers
A thirst for adventure, a deep desire to push themselves beyond their comfort zones, and innate curiosity about the world and its peoples fill the 10 biographies in Extraordinary Women Explorers.
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