Land Beyond Maps

February 2009

Maida Tilchen
ISBN 978-0966987799
Trade paperback, 216 pgs.

Just before the 1929 Crash, middle-aged Gilpin accompanies her life partner, nurse Betsy Forster to an isolated Navajo community. There Betsy provides medical care while learning Navajo culture and healing methods, and Laura finds her artistic vision by taking photographs of the Navajo and the southwestern landscape. Ambitious archaeologists, zealous missionaries, quietly forceful Navajo women, and overeager tourists intensify this fast-paced story. Based on extensive research, Land Beyond Maps is a novel of women’s history, travel, biography, and adventure, drawing the reader into the lives of women who find new adventures, new careers, and new passions later in life.

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