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Windswept - why women walk (Paperback)
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Windswept - why women walk (Paperback)
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Loot Price R313
Discovery Miles 3 130
You Save R54 (15%)
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The story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense
of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through
walking in the wild. 'Moving and memorable' Virginia Nicholson,
author of How Was It for You? 'A triumph ... I felt as though I
were being lifted, carried up to peaks' Charlotte Peacock, author
of Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd 'A beautiful and
meditative memoir' Publishers Weekly For centuries, the wilds have
been male territory, while women sat safely confined at home. But
not all women did as they were told, despite the dangers; history
reveals women for whom rural walking became inspiration,
consolation and liberation. In this powerful and deeply inspiring
book, Annabel Abbs uncovers women who refused to conform, who
recognised a biological, emotional and artistic need for
wilderness, water and desert - and who took the courageous step of
walking unpeopled and often forbidding landscapes. Part wild-walk,
part memoir, Windswept follows an exhilarating journey from Abbs's
isolated, car-less childhood to her walking the remote paths
trodden by extraordinary women, including Georgia O'Keeffe in the
empty plains of Texas and New Mexico, Nan Shepherd in the mountains
of Scotland, Gwen John following the Garonne, Simone de Beauvoir in
the mountains and forests of France and Daphne du Maurier along the
River Rhone. A single question pulses through their walks: How does
a woman change once she becomes windswept?
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