The women I think about at night : traveling the paths of my heroes
Kankimäki, Mia, 1971-2020
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In The Women I Think About at Night, Mia Kankimaki blends travelogue, memoir, and biography as she 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 Kankimaki 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 Artemisia 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 part travelogue and part thrilling exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see--and change--the world.
Main title:
The women I think about at night : traveling the paths of my heroes / Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson.
Author:
Kankimäki, Mia, 1971-, authorRobinson, Douglas, 1954-, translator
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback international edition.
Imprint:
New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2020.©2020
Collation:
viii, 407 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in 2018 in Finland by Otava as Naiset joita ajattelen öisin.Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406).
Contents:
Night women: a confession -- Africa. White fog, winter-spring: Karen Blixen ; Tanzania-Kenya, May -- Explorers. Kallio-Vihti, summer: Isabella Bird, Ida Pfeiffer, Mary Kingsley ; Kyoto, September. Alexandra David-Neel, Nellie Bly, Top 3 worst packers -- Artists. Florence, November: Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi ; Kallio-Mazzano, winter-spring -- Rome-Bologna-Florence revisited ; Normandy, September: Yayoi Kusama ; Magic Mountain.
ISBN:
9781982158781 (pbk)9781982158781
Dewey class:
910.4092910.4
Language:
EnglishFinnish
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BRN:
394670
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Countries | 910.4 KAN | Available |