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Glowing Still

- A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
Af: Sara Wheeler Engelsk Paperback

Glowing Still

- A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
Af: Sara Wheeler Engelsk Paperback
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Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar

'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph

'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday

'Magnificent and unusual' Viv Groskop, Spectator

Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. 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. Glowing Still recalls happy days on India's Puri Express; an Antarctic lavatory through which a seal popped up (hot fishy breath!); and the louche life of a Parisian shopgirl. Corralling reindeer with the Sámi in Arctic Sweden and towing her baby on a sledge, a helpful herdsman advised her to put foil down her bra to facilitate nursing.

Launching at Nubility, Wheeler voyages, via small children, to the welcoming port of Invisibility (she leaves Immobility for the next volume). 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, among them Martha Gellhorn, the ineffable war correspondent who furnishes Wheeler's epigraph: 'I do not wish to be good. I wish to be hell on wheels, or dead.'
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Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar

'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph

'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday

'Magnificent and unusual' Viv Groskop, Spectator

Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. 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. Glowing Still recalls happy days on India's Puri Express; an Antarctic lavatory through which a seal popped up (hot fishy breath!); and the louche life of a Parisian shopgirl. Corralling reindeer with the Sámi in Arctic Sweden and towing her baby on a sledge, a helpful herdsman advised her to put foil down her bra to facilitate nursing.

Launching at Nubility, Wheeler voyages, via small children, to the welcoming port of Invisibility (she leaves Immobility for the next volume). 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, among them Martha Gellhorn, the ineffable war correspondent who furnishes Wheeler's epigraph: 'I do not wish to be good. I wish to be hell on wheels, or dead.'
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9780349145105
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0349145105
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 6 jun 2024
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 128mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 6 jun 2024
Forfatter(e): Sara Wheeler
Forfatter(e) Sara Wheeler


Kategori Forside


ISBN-13 9780349145105


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 368


Udgave


Længde 26mm


Bredde 128mm


Højde 196mm


Udg. Dato 6 jun 2024


Oplagsdato 6 jun 2024


Forlag Little, Brown Book Group

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