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A review by ida_ree
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
5.0
I'm an avid walker, so was naturally drawn to this book. I will read anything about walking and anything about women empowering themselves. Great combo here.
Andrews specifically focuses on women who have written about their walking experiences. So it's not about every well-known female pedestrian. She starts with some of her own experiences in the mountains of Scotland and then forays into ten separate essays, each focusing on one person. Some figures were familiar to me -- Virginia Woolf, Cheryl Strayed. Others were new introductions. I learned about Dorothy Wordsworth, who thought nothing of walking 20 or more miles in a day, and every bit as accomplished as her famous brother, William. I'm going to look up writing by Linda Cracknell after reading about her here. In fact, this book grew my "to read" list quite a bit.
I liked that Andrews retraced many of the walks described and shares a short blurb about her personal experience following the footsteps of the women who went before.
Andrews specifically focuses on women who have written about their walking experiences. So it's not about every well-known female pedestrian. She starts with some of her own experiences in the mountains of Scotland and then forays into ten separate essays, each focusing on one person. Some figures were familiar to me -- Virginia Woolf, Cheryl Strayed. Others were new introductions. I learned about Dorothy Wordsworth, who thought nothing of walking 20 or more miles in a day, and every bit as accomplished as her famous brother, William. I'm going to look up writing by Linda Cracknell after reading about her here. In fact, this book grew my "to read" list quite a bit.
I liked that Andrews retraced many of the walks described and shares a short blurb about her personal experience following the footsteps of the women who went before.