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Title Statement | Glowing still: a woman's life on the road / Sara Wheeler. |
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Author | Wheeler, Sara |
Publication | London: Abacus Books,2023. |
Extent of Item | 351 pages |
ISBN | 9781408716731 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07291812 |
Contents | Introduction --At least 300: Antarctica --Moni sou?: Greece --Ladyland : India --The storming army : Africa --Not even past : North America --Its own map : Latin America --Thin paths : China --Don't wake Sofia : Russia --'The Bronx, no thonx' --The saddest pleasure : Zanzibar. |
Summary | Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. From the Antarctic to Zanzibar, 'Glowing Still' is the story of her travelling life-what is "important, revealing or funny"-in a notoriously testosterone-laden field. Growing up among blue-collar Conservatives in Bristol where 'we didn't know anyone who wasn't like us', Wheeler knew she needed to get away. In her twenties she began a dramatic escape: Pole to Pole, via Poland. As she writes in the introduction: when she set sail, 'role models were scarce in the travel-writing game.' But advancing years usher in unheralded freedoms, and journey's end finds Wheeler at peace among Zanzibar dhows, contemplating our connection with other lives-the irreplaceable value that travel brings-and paying homage to her heroines. 'Surely,' wrote Freya Stark, 'of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.' |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Travelers' writings, British |
Women travelers--Biography | |
By Name | Wheeler, Sara |
By Genre | Biographies |
Autobiographies | |
Personal narratives |