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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.

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"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. KATHLEEN JAMIE, one of the UK's foremost poets, is the author of four books of poetry and three nonfiction titles, including Sightlines. Her many awards and honors include the 2017 Royal Geographic Society Ness Award, conferred upon Jamie ""for outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture""; the 2013 Costa Book Award; as well as numerous prestigious poetry awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, Forward Poetry Prize of the Year, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award (twice). A professor of creative writing at the University of Stirling, she lives with her family in Fife, Scotland. Lauren Baldwin is an accomplished actress and chocolate enthusiast, hailing from the North of England, where she trained at Liverpool John Moores University. Lauren has narrated several successful audiobooks and is the voice of Jane Goodall for her written works. In film and television, Lauren has worked on the feature film The Circle with Tom Hanks as well as Lucifer for Fox, Timeless for NBC, and American Gigolo for Showtime. She can also be seen in several national commercials and has performed on stage all over the UK-making her US debut at the Sierra Madre Playhouse in the W. S. Gilbert play Engaged."

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