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Glowing still : a woman's life on the road / Sara Wheeler.
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.'
Record details
- ISBN: 9781408716731 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: London : Abacus Books, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Wheeler, Sara. Travelers' writings, British. Women travelers > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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