Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

Kerri Andrews
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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. 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.

Offering a beguiling, alternative view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing - of being - articulated by these ten pathfinding women.

     

    Editor: Kerri Andrews

    Publisher: Reaktion Books

    Format: Paperback

    Pages: 304

    ISBN: 9781789145014

    Publication Date: July 2021

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