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Title The women I think about at night : traveling the paths of my heroes / Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson.
Author Kankimäki, Mia, 1971- author.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
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Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description viii, 407 pages : 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406).
Contents Night women: a confession -- Africa. White fog, winter-spring: Karen Blixen ; Tanzania-Kenya, May -- Explorers. Kallio-Vihti, summer: Isabella Bird, Ida Pfeiffer, Mary Kingsley ; Kyoto, September. Alexandra David-Neel, Nellie Bly, Top 3 worst packers -- Artists. Florence, November: Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi ; Kallio-Mazzano, winter-spring -- Rome-Bologna-Florence revisited ; Normandy, September: Yayoi Kusama ; Magic Mountain.
Summary "What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen--of Out of Africa--fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can't Mia?"--Amazon.
Note Originally published in 2018 in Finland by Otava as Naiset joita ajattelen öisin.
Subject Travel -- Miscellanea.
Women travelers.
Depression in women.
Women -- Biography.
Kankimäki, Mia, 1971- -- Travel.
Genre Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Travel writing.
Subject ocls womens history
Added Author Robinson, Douglas, 1954- translator.
Added Title Naiset joita ajattelen öisin. English
ISBN 9781982129194 : $27.00
1982129190