Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman Gardening Design Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll

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Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman Gardening Design Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve CollFanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a helmet, Workman was a force on and off the mountain. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan mountain climbing, this American woman climbed more peaks than any of her peers and became the first woman to map the far reaches of the Himalayas and the second