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My Mother The Explorer
ResumeThe year was 1923 and little in young Janet's gilded childhood suggested the dusty boots of a world explorer. A daughter of privilege, hers was the world of Edith Wharton civility, where young ladies prepared for a good marriage, not for rafting down the Yellow River on a raft of inflated yak skins.
But Janet was no ordinary society belle. She had a deep thirst for adventure. At age 24, then Janet Elliott left New York for Paris for what was to be the first stop on an extraordinary life journey--a journey that would take her to explore the world, and the far peaks of her own soul.
Guests:
Mabel Cabot, daughter of Janet Elliott Wulsin, author of "Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925"
This program aired on May 12, 2003.