Jill Ker Conway, The Road from Coorain

Navigating by the Southern Cross:

Fundamentally Conway's memoir involves rethinking world maps.  The following humorous piece underscores how power and mapping correlate:

http://www.upworthy.com/we-have-been-mislead-by-an-erroneous-map-of-the-world-for-500-years?c=bl3

The trilogy:

The Road from Coorain is the first in a trilogy.  The second part is True North (again involving discovery of the self in relation to global mapping), and the third is A Woman's Education.  Parallel with the navigation of self is an exploration of the meaning and development of what it means to be female in post World War II society. 

Here Jill Ker Conway talks about her experiences as a leader of women's education:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QuO88X6WEk