Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World

by Andrea Barnet

Book Overview

A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography

Four influential women we thought we knew well--Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters--and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement

This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women--linked not by friendship or field, but by their choice to break with convention--showed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062310720
• ISBN13: 9780062310729
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"