Wanderers : a history of women walking
Andrews, Kerri2020
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A title about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. 'Wanderers' traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter - who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England - to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury.
Main title:
Wanderers : a history of women walking / Kerri Andrews ; foreword by Kathleen Jamie.
Author:
Andrews, Kerri, author
Imprint:
London : Reaktion Books, 2020.
Collation:
288 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781789143423 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.5109252796.51
LC class:
GV199.58
Local class:
796.51
Language:
English
BRN:
2778239
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