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YES! Emily Chappel! Please write THIS book. Maybe women need more PR - how can we all help…keep talking, keep writing, keep on keeping on

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Always have felt similar too, Dervla Murphy is fantastically oblivious to warnings and sensible courses of action and for me is another, if slightly anachronistic, in the model of the Victorian explorer of a certain class. Although, interestingly she is not British which does make her different but also at certain points, more easily accepted; Ireland's neutral and non-colonial recent history prompts a different reaction. Her contacts book certainly helps her along though. Just finished reading Mark Beaumont's account of riding around the world, again some good contacts 'ease' his journey supported remotely by his very determined mother. She for me is the hero of the story, these epic trips often have women at their foundation.

Also think that some of the apparent forgetting of role models and heroes is just a factor of time. Some remain in the memory almost randomly, others not at all. That said, it does tend to be mostly white men still, but things are changing.

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