The Women I Think About At Night Traveling The Paths Of My Heroes Mia Kankimki by Mia Kankimäki, Douglas Robinson 9781982129194, 1982129190 instant download after payment.

In The Women I Think About at Night,
Mia Kankimäki blends travelogue, memoir, and biography as she recounts
her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the
steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.
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?
The Women I Think About at Night is
part travelogue and part thrilling exploration of the lost women
adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see—and
change—the world.