Mountaineers Books Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature

Features

• Features stories from 22 writers highlighting the challenges and joys of carving out your own path
• Encompasses 4 major themes—identity, inspiration, ancestry and stewardship—and traces common experiences across the writers’ paths through nature and into science
• Essays and poems range across activities from rock climbing, surfing and snowboarding to fieldwork with birds and marine animals

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From the publisher: Camille Mosely contemplates the rich fishing history of Black Americans and how that relates to their career in freshwater ecology. Sharon Dorsey reflects on finally meeting a wildlife professional who looks like her. Tanisha Williams shares the emotional journey of returning to South Africa to study plants. Edited by Amber Wendler and Shaz Zamore, this collection explores what sparked the authors’ interest in the natural world, how fieldwork and adventure have shaped them as individuals, what it means to be a Black woman or nonbinary scientist studying the natural world, and what the future may look like for our shared outdoor community.View all Mountaineers Books Non-Fictional Adventures

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Publisher

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Casual

8 x 6 inches

Amber Wendler and Shaz Zamore

208

Paperback

9781680515923

Mountaineers Books

2023