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The women I think about at night : traveling the paths of my heroes / Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson.
"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?"--Amazon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982129194 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: viii, 407 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in 2018 in Finland by Otava as Naiset joita ajattelen öisin. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Kankimäki, Mia, 1971- > Travel. Depression in women. Travel > Miscellanea. Women travelers. Women > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Documents the author's transformative visits to the creative venues of women artists who inspired her career, including Out of Africa's Karen Blixen, modern Japan's Yayoi Kusama, and the remarkable portrait artists in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. - Baker & Taylor
Documents the authorâs transformative visits to the creative venues of women artists who inspired her career, including Out of Africaâs Karen Blixen, modern Japanâs Yayoi Kusama and the remarkable portrait artists in Florenceâs Uffizi Gallery. 40,000 first printing. - Simon and Schuster
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 Blixenâof Out of Africaâfame 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 canât 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 seeâand changeâthe world.
