Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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take a nice deep breath in,

let it out slowly,

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Tonight we're relaxing with a book by a remarkable woman,

an adventurer, explorer, mountaineer, and suffragette.

The book is the South American tour by Annie S Peck, MA. Author of a search for the Apex of America, illustrated chiefly from photographs

by the author, published by the George H. Doren Company, 1913.

Let's begin.

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