A History of Women Walking
Foreword by Kathleen Jamie
'Andrews features a wonderful cast of characters... It still feels somehow radical to talk about women ramblers and flâneuses; the sensitive, well-researched portraits in Wanderers rightly begin to redress the balance.' - The Idler
This is a book 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 vagbond in the wilds of southern England - to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing - of being - articulated by these pathfinding women.
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Reaktion Books LTD
ISBN: 9781789145014
Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.8 x 2.4 cm