Wanderers, Kerri Andrews
Wanderers, Kerri Andrews
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Wanderers
A History of Women Walking

Author: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie

Narrator: Lauren Baldwin

Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/13/2024

Synopsis

This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury. Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing—of being—articulated by these ten pathfinding women.

About Kerri Andrews

Kerri Andrews is a reader in women's literature and textual editing at Edge Hill University. She has published widely on women's writing, especially Romantic-era authors, writing for the Guardian, Trail magazine, and others, and is a keen hill-walker and member of Mountaineering Scotland. She lives in Peebles, Scotland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ellie

I liked the idea of this book, and I definitely enjoyed some of the chapters - but it isn’t a history of women walking. It is more an analysis of women’s writing on walking. The book is a collection of chapters each exploring the writings of one female walker. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on......more

Goodreads review by Felicity

Seduced by the newspaper review I'd read of Wanderers on its initial publication, I bought this book in haste and have since regretted it at my leisure. Although Andrews is a lecturer in English Literature, the book is not an academic monograph published by a university press but is ostensibly an ac......more

Goodreads review by Gedankenlabor

>>Nachts durch die Straßen, küssend, riechend (...) Ich bin bezaubert von seinem schönen, dunklen Gesicht, seiner Heftigkeit, seiner Poesie. ...<< "Frauen, die wandern, sind nie allein" von Kerri Andres - ein Buch, das mich mitgenommen hat auf eine ganz besondere und intensive Reise. Man ist nicht nur......more

Goodreads review by Rowan

I was really looking forward to this book, but ultimately it felt like a set of assigned essays written by a college student.......more

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