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Naga Path
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260 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1950
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April 22, 2015Wow, surprised I haven't heard of this woman before!
You know how it used to be not-uncommon in England to send unmarried daughters to the colonies in hopes they would catch a husband there? At 23 Bowers was sent for this reason. Instead of getting hitched, she decided to devote some time to making a photographic record of the Naga Hills tribes.
That's cool enough on it's own... but then! The Japanese invaded Burma and were planning to invade India as well, so she taught a number of locals to shoot and organized them into an increasingly complex scouting and ambush system, repelling Japanese incursions and helping thousands escape from occupied Burma. She was so effective that the Japanese put a price on her head.
Some of her men training:
She finished up her anthropological study afterwards.
Then she got married, to military officer and natural historian Frederick Nicholson Betts, so it even worked out the way her mother wanted. Or close enough.
Bonus random connection: children's writer Barbara Euphan Todd was her stepmother.
You know how it used to be not-uncommon in England to send unmarried daughters to the colonies in hopes they would catch a husband there? At 23 Bowers was sent for this reason. Instead of getting hitched, she decided to devote some time to making a photographic record of the Naga Hills tribes.
That's cool enough on it's own... but then! The Japanese invaded Burma and were planning to invade India as well, so she taught a number of locals to shoot and organized them into an increasingly complex scouting and ambush system, repelling Japanese incursions and helping thousands escape from occupied Burma. She was so effective that the Japanese put a price on her head.
Some of her men training:
She finished up her anthropological study afterwards.
Then she got married, to military officer and natural historian Frederick Nicholson Betts, so it even worked out the way her mother wanted. Or close enough.
Bonus random connection: children's writer Barbara Euphan Todd was her stepmother.
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