Between Heaven and Earth - The Life of a Mountaineer, Freda du Faur

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Freda du Faur's story is not only about the conquest of mountains but recreates the world of a woman, born in the 19th century, who climbed in the early 20th century, yet aspired to live as if she had the choices available today. Her life was one of great promise, of ambition thwarted by circumstances and tradition, lost love and uncertain emotions, and a pride that refused to compromise. It vividly takes the reader into the realms of the unexplored Blue Mountains and Ku-ring-gai Chase, Federation Sydney, the daringly brilliant milieu of early mountaineering in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, suffragist London then, during the later backlash against independent women, into the frightening domain of the first `deep sleep' therapies.