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This is a short book that contains essays about influential woman and their relationship with the outdoors. I‘m not sure what I expected, but this was very well written and had interesting information about the freedom the outdoors provided them. It‘s good, just short.

Yikes. I was so excited to read this book but it felt more like a misnamed thesis. Maybe I just knew more than the average reader about most of the subjects mentioned and so what was pulled from each of their stories felt weighted to aim for a certain angle just for this book. I don't know. In my opinion just read a book on each person or team and leave this book for people cramming for Jeopardy or something.

Norton is starting a new line of short reads, under 200 pages of exploration on a theme. They are calling it 'brilliance with brevity.' Wild Girls is the series opener and it is fantastic. Miles delves into the way nature and the outdoors contributed to the development and legacies of prominent women in American history. She dispels some myths and lionizes others (while grounding them in historical fact). A great short read with awesome notes ffr.