![]() ![]() ‘Solitude is not only for other people, wild rural spaces are not only for men’. Her shelf of walking books wasn’t ‘men or adventures I could emulate’, and she was angry at men’s unexamined dominance. Abbs quotes Werner Herzog: ‘where I’m going to sleep doesn’t worry me’, but women face additional complexity and rarely get to be so casual. It’s always been hard to relate to men’s casualness, fearlessness and ‘easy uncomplicated swagger’. Like many of us, she was slow to notice all her walking books were by men, and then wondered if that was why she hadn’t found them inspiring. In this inspirational book, combining biography and memoire, Annabel Abbs combines walking with celebrating the remarkable women who walked before her. Recently issued in paperback by John Murray Press, Annabel Abbs’ ‘Windswept: Why Women Walk’ tells the stories of six extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. ![]()
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