Women Who Dared Volume 2 brings readers 52 MORE incredible stories of daredevils and adventurers from around the world for readers of all ages. Celebrate and be inspired by the amazing, outrageous stories of women! Women have been doing amazing, daring, and dangerous things for years, yet they're rarely mentioned in our history books as adventurers. This sequel of short biographies features women throughout history who have risked their lives for adventure--some of whom you may know, many of whom you may not know, but all of whom you'll WANT to know, like: Katherine Cheung, the first Chinese woman to obtain an international flying license Laura Dekker, the youngest person to sail around the world single-handedly Katharina Paulus, an exhibition parachute jumper and the inventor of the first collapsible parachute

Daredevils.

Katherine Cheung -- Laura Dekker -- Mauricia De Tiers -- Margaret Gast -- Eloise "Fox" Hastings -- Adelaide Hermann -- Gladys Ingle -- Marie Marvingt -- Patti McGee -- Diana Nyad -- Kitty O'Neil -- Katharina Paulus -- Rossa Richter -- Katie Sandwina -- Maria Spelterini -- Elisabeth Thible --

Adventurers.

Anna Atkins -- Dorothea Bate -- Anne Innis Dagg -- Robyn Davidson -- Thuridur Einarsdottir -- Birute Galdikas -- Juliane Koepcke -- Dorothy Lawrence -- Catherine Leroy -- Margaret "Meg" Lowman -- Kathrin Barboza Marquez -- Ida Pfeiffer -- Miriam Rothschild -- Arunima Sinha -- Madge Syers -- Helen Thayer -- Jeanne Villepreux-Power -- Annie Wilkins --

Rebels.

Alicia Alonso -- Ethelda Bleibtrey -- Margaret Chung -- Kathleen "Kit" Coleman -- Agnes Daluge -- Michaela Deprince -- Viola Desmond -- Florence Finch -- Harriet Hemenway -- Julia Butterfly Hill -- Mamie "Peanut" Johnson -- Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins -- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee -- Marta -- Jennie Smillie Robertson -- Daniela Soto-Innes -- Mary Seacole -- Annie Dodge Wauneka -- Bibliography -- Index