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Nancy Pfeiffer

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in Riverton Wyoming, The United States

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As a lifelong adventurer and outdoor educator, Nancy Pfeiffer has traveled from
Antarctica to the Arctic Ocean. Life as a mountaineering guide has given her the opportunity to
experience the world’s highest summits, yet it is the landscapes and cultures encountered along the
way that intrigue her most.Her published works range from poetry to scientific research, and explore
subjects from the joys and frustrations of building a house as a single woman to mountaineering for
paraplegics. As a novice horsewoman, Nancy took off across Patagonia alone on horseback. Over the
next two decades and three thousand kilometers of rugged horse trail, the hospitable people who live
there took her in, and Patagonia slipped silently into her soul. Nancy now lives ...more

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In every generation there are women who live boldly, who push the limites on what society expects of us. You can meet two of them in A Map of Her Own. I did and they are living with me long after I finished the book.
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This book opened, expanded, and completely blew my mind every few paragraphs. It made me question the "reality" that we have accepted through our self-centered human perspective of what the world is like. ...more
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