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Glowing Still
A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
Taschenbuch von Sara Wheeler
Sprache: Englisch

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Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer and Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life 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. 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.

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

'Smoulders with anger about the historically contested place of women travel writers' TLS

'Full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday

Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer and Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life 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. 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.

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

'Smoulders with anger about the historically contested place of women travel writers' TLS

'Full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday

Über den Autor
Sara Wheeler's books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Chile: Travels in a Thin Country,Evia: An Island Apart and The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, whichwas chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America! She lives in London.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Reiseberichte
Region: Reiseerzählungen
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349145105
ISBN-10: 0349145105
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wheeler, Sara
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Sara Wheeler
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.06.2024
Gewicht: 0,292 kg
Artikel-ID: 120631081
Über den Autor
Sara Wheeler's books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Chile: Travels in a Thin Country,Evia: An Island Apart and The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, whichwas chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America! She lives in London.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Reiseberichte
Region: Reiseerzählungen
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349145105
ISBN-10: 0349145105
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wheeler, Sara
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Sara Wheeler
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.06.2024
Gewicht: 0,292 kg
Artikel-ID: 120631081
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