San Rafael - The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame is the first comprehensive biography of the intrepid American socialite Louise Arner Boyd, who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century. After inheriting a staggering family fortune, Boyd fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged, and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman.
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