About the Book

In Wildly Different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth’s wild places. We’ll meet Mina Hubbard, who outraged the exploration community when she stepped into a canoe in northern Labrador. Evelyn Cheesman, who became the first female keeper of insects at London Zoo. Dorothy Pilley, who shocked polite society by donning men’s climbing breeches. Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District Britain’s first National Park. And Wangari Maathai, who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa.

Drawing on interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Wangari Maathai’s daughter and others, Lonsdale recounts the women’s adventures across five continents. Evocative and inspiring, this book shows how women can be ‘wildly different’.

Recommended for

• Women's History lovers
• Fans of Sir David Attenborough
• Nature fanatics

About the OKS Author

Sarah Lonsdale attended King’s in The Grange from 1981 to 1983. Since leaving King’s, Sarah has achieved her BA, MA, and PhD degrees; led a vibrant, thirty-year long career in journalism, writing for Observer, Financial Times, and National Geographic Green to name a few; and has published three books to date.