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.
But not all women did as they were told, despite the dangers history reveals women for whom rural walking became inspiration, consolation and liberation. 'A beautiful and meditative memoir' Publishers Weeklyįor centuries, the wilds have been male territory, while women sat safely confined at home. I felt as though I were being lifted, carried up to peaks' Charlotte Peacock, author of Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd 'Moving and memorable' Virginia Nicholson, author of How Was It for You? 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.
A feminist exploration of the power of walking in nature, following in the footsteps of Gwen John, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frieda Lawrence, Clara Vyvyan, Simone de Beauvoir and Nan Shepherd.
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