Kafarowski, Joanna <br/><br/>
The polar adventures of a rich American dame :  a life of Louise Arner Boyd 
/ Joanna Kafarowski 
 - Toronto  : Dundurn  , 2017 
 - 367 p.  : illus.  ; 23 cm 
 - San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
<br/><br/> Located in the Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel authors. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York's distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era. She was presented at the British royal court, and travelled in genteel style from one dazzling capital to another. After inheriting a staggering family fortune while only in her thirties, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading philanthropist and society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781459739703 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Boyd, Louise Arner (1887 - 1972) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women explorers---Biography---United States<br/>Women adventurers---Biography---United States<br/>Philanthropists---United States----Biography<br/>Rich people---United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Artic regions---Discoveries and explorations---American
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH31.B69  / K34 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 BOY