After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had
enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is
not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find
like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest
backing, a small television crew, her spirited producer-mother,
Jeannie, and a whole lot of chutzpah, Morris tracked down artists,
activists, and politicos-women of action who are changing the rules
and sometimes the world around them.
In these pages, Morris brings to life the remarkable people and
places she's encountered on the road while filming her PBS series
Adventure Divas and other programs. We meet Assata Shakur, a former
Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in
exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi's chief of police, who
revolutionized India's infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her
humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who
reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and
Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who
lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of
Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government's
strict stance on art.
Along the way, Morris herself becomes a certified Adventure Diva,
as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of
Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty
fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first
woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis
town of Timia.
Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling
details of place, Adventure Divas is a pro-woman chronicle for the
twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity,
ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the
way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on
our own adventures.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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