A review by atadasi
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews

3.0

If you’re interested in Romantic writers/nature/hiking, you’ll most likely love this book. If you’re interested in walking/pedestrianism generally, parts of these book will grab you and others will fade quickly. I’m of the latter group and while I enjoyed the chapters on Virginia Woolf and Anaïs Nin—they were the urban walkers of the book—I was largely unimpressed. I’m coming to think I’m somewhat averse/uninterested in books that are 90% recounting research and 10% writer’s voice. The most captivating books are the ones that maintain voice even while sorting through facts and details. I’d hoped this would be one. Disappointed it wasn’t.