The Daring Book for Girls - Andrea J. Buchanan [139]
15. Words to Live By. Be brave and walk with confidence. And remember, in the words of Amelia Earhart, “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
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ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
8: Woman Having Her Palm Read, courtesy the Picture Collection, The Branch Libraries, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
22: Princess Sarah Culberson, courtesy of Sarah Culberson
41: Mausoleum of Halicarnassus by Martin Heemskerck © Bettmann/CORBIS
56: Moai statues Photograph © Tim Waters www.flickr.com/photos/tim-waters
96: Coins of Salome Alexandria’s reign, © jewishencyclopedia.com
123: Amelia Earhart, Library of Congress
124: Alexandra David-Néel. Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy
126: Freya Stark, Popperfoto/Alamy
126: Florence Baker. Classic Image/Alamy
136: Mrs. John Adams (Abigail Smith), the Emmet Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
149: Hedy Lamarr, courtesy of MGM
150: Josephine Baker, Library of Congress
160: Antonius et Cleopatra, the Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
167-173: Scooter plans inspired by and adapted from Les Kenny of www.buildeazy.com, a website featuring building projects for kids and adults. Used with permission.
176: © iStockphoto.com/Douglas Allen
205: Florence Nightingale, Library of Congress
205: Clara Barton, Library of Congress
246: Topographic map: USGS
248: Jewelweed, Robert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA SCS. 1989. Midwest wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. Midwest National Technical Center, Lincoln, NE.
262: Queen Zenobia Addressing Her Soldiers, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1730, Samuel H. Kress Collection. Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Acknowledgments
With thanks to our agents, Laura Gross and Sam Stoloff; Phil Friedman, Matthew Benjamin, Stephanie Meyers, and everyone at HarperCollins and The Stonesong Press. And to Molly Ashodian and her friends, Barbara Card Atkinson, Rob Baird, Samira Baird, Dana Barron, Gil Binenbaum, Nate Binenbaum, Steve and Nurit Binenbaum, Rona Binenbaum, the Bromley-Zimmerman family, Sarah Brown, Bill Buchanan, Elin Buchanan, Emi Buchanan, Jessie Buchanan, Shannon Buchanan, Betsy Busch, Stacy DeBroff, Katie Dolgenos, Asha Dornfest, Ann Douglas, Eileen Flanagan, Marcus Geduld, the Goldman-Hersh family, Kay Gormley, Sarah Heady, the Larrabee-O’Donovan family, Jack’s Marine, Jane Butler Kahle, Megan Pincus Kajitani, Les Kenny, Killian’s Hardware, Andy Lamas, Jen Lawrence, Sara Lorimer, Rachel Marcus, Molly Masyr, Metafilter (especially the women of Ask Metafilter), Jim Miller, Tracy Miller, Marjorie Osterhout, Myra and Dan Peskowitz, Deborah Rickards, Rittenhouse Lumber, Carol Sime, Lisa Suggitt of rollergirl. ca, Alexis Seabrook, Kate Scantlebury, Tom Sugrue, Carrie Szalay, and Felicia Sullivan. Appreciation to everyone who of fered advice and inspiration, and to daring girls everywhere.
The publisher and authors acknowledge the inspiration of The Dangerous Book for Boys for the concept and design for this book and are grateful to Conn and Hal Iggulden for their permission.
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz.
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