Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

by Kerri Andrews

Book Overview

"This is a book about ten women who, over the past three hundred years have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. In a series of intimate, incisive portraits, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789145015
• ISBN13: 9781789145014
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"