UNDREAMED SHORES: FIVE WOMEN WHO SOUGHT OUT THE WORLD (PB)

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe. Resisting pernicious sexism and misogyny, they were among the first women to study at university and went on to chart now-vanished worlds, seeking new freedoms. Yet upon their return to England, they found only loss, madness and regret waiting for them. An extraordinary portrait of a pioneering quintet whose struggles helped usher in a brighter dawn.