Research Catalog

Title

The women I think about at night : traveling the paths of my heroes / Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson.

Author

Kankimäki, Mia, 1971-

Publication

• New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Robinson, Douglas, 1954-

Description

viii, 407 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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.

Uniform Title

Naiset joita ajattelen öisin. English

Alternative Title

Naiset joita ajattelen öisin.

Subject

• Kankimäki, Mia, 1971- > Travel
• Travel > Miscellanea
• Women travelers
• Depression in women
• Women > Biography
• Women
• Travel

Genre/Form

• Travel writing.
• Biographies.
• Autobiographies.
• Trivia and miscellanea.
• Informational works.

Note

• Originally published in 2018 in Finland by Otava as Naiset joita ajattelen öisin.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406).

Language (note)

• English translation of the Finnish publication.

Contents

Night women: a confession -- Africa. White fog, winter-spring: Karen Blixen ; Tanzania-Kenya, May -- Explorers. Kallio-Vihti, summer: Isabella Bird, Ida Pfeiffer, Mary Kingsley ; Kyoto, September. Alexandra David-Neel, Nellie Bly, Top 3 worst packers -- Artists. Florence, November: Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi ; Kallio-Mazzano, winter-spring -- Rome-Bologna-Florence revisited ; Normandy, September: Yayoi Kusama ; Magic Mountain.

Call Number

JFE 21-3369

ISBN

• 9781982129194
• 1982129190

OCLC

1139765009

Author

Kankimäki, Mia, 1971- author.

Title

The women I think about at night : traveling the paths of my heroes / Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson.

Publisher

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406).

Language

English translation of the Finnish publication.

Added Author

Robinson, Douglas, 1954- translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3369