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Barcode30053003768457
StatusWithdrawn
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No820.998 ANDR
Title Wanderers : a history of women walking / Kerri Andrews ; foreword by Kathleen Jamie.
Author Andrews, Kerri author.
CollectionAdult 800-899

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 Paris-Bourbon30053003779744820.998 ANDR7/25/2024 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Andrews, Kerri author.
Title Statement Wanderers : a history of women walking / Kerri Andrews ; foreword by Kathleen Jamie.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice London : Reaktion Books, 2021.
Physical Description 303 pages ; 20 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-288) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Foreword -- Setting off -- Elizabeth Carter -- Dorothy Wordsworth -- Ellen Weeton -- Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt -- Harriet Martineau -- Virginia Woolf -- Nan Shepherd -- Anaïs Nin -- Cheryl Strayed -- Linda Cracknell and a female tradition -- Coda -- Appendix.
Summary, Etc. "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."--Back cover.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Trails Great Britain.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Hiking Great Britain History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women authors, English Travel Great Britain History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women authors, English Travel History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Walking Great Britain History.
Index Term-Genre/Form Anecdotes lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Travel writing lcgft.
Added Entry, Personal Name Jamie, Kathleen, 1962- writer of foreword.

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