Profiles fifty-two women in history who who have risked their lives for the sake of adventure, including Sophie Blanchard, Mary Anning, Minnie Spotted Wolf, and Alia Muhammad Baker.

Daredevils. Anna Olga Albertina Brown -- Annie Edson Taylor -- Bessie Coleman -- Elinor Smith -- Florence Chadwick -- Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick -- Helen Gibson -- Lillian Boyer -- Lillian Leitzel -- Mary Lillian Ellison -- May Emmeline Wirth -- Mildred Burke -- Shirley Muldowney -- Sophie Blanchard -- Valentina Tereshkova -- Adventurers. Ada Blackjack -- Barbara Hillary -- Beatrice Ayettey -- Emma "Grandma" Gatewood -- Dr. Eugenie Clark -- Fanny Bullock Workman -- Ferminia Sarras -- Ida Lewis -- Jeanne Baret -- Joan Bamford Fletcher -- Junko Tabei -- Libby Riddles -- Lillian Riggs -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Mary Anning -- Mina Hubbard -- Rosaly Lopes -- Sylvia Earle -- Ynes Mexia -- Rebels. Alia Muhammad Baker -- Annette Kellerman -- Annie "Londonderry" Cohen Kopchovsky -- Belle Boyd -- Bessie Stringfield -- Ella Hattan -- Irena Sendler -- Johanna July -- Kate Warne -- Keiko Fukuda -- Lyda Conley -- Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown -- Mary Edwards Walker -- Mary Fields -- Minnie Spotted Wolf -- Rose Fortune -- Susan la Flesche Picotte -- Sybil Ludington.