{"product_id":"windswept-walking-in-the-footsteps-of-remarkable-women-paperback","title":"Windswept: Walking In The Footsteps of Remarkable Women - Paperback","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA triumph ... I felt as though I were being lifted, carried up to peaks.'\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCharlotte Peacock, author of. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInto the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'I couldn't put it down.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQuite extraordinary... written in such a free flowing, readable style. I'm in awe.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e - Maggie Humm, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTalland House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA feminist exploration of the power of walking in nature, following in the footsteps of Gwen John, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frieda Lawrence, Clara Vyvyan, Simone de Beauvoir, Daphne Du Maurier and Nan Shepherd.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor centuries, the wilds have been male territory, while women sat safely confined at home. But not all women did as they were told, despite the dangers; history is littered with women for whom rural walking became inspiration, consolation and liberation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this powerful and deeply inspiring book, Annabel Abbs uncovers women who refused to conform, who recognised a biological, emotional and artistic need for wilderness, water and desert - and who took the courageous step of walking unpeopled and often forbidding landscapes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart wild-walk, part memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWindswept\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e follows an exhilarating journey from Abbs' isolated car-less childhood to her walking the remote paths trodden by extraordinary women including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorgia O'Keeffe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in the empty plains of Texas and New Mexico, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNan Shepherd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in the mountains of Scotland, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGwen John\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e following the Garonne, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSimone de Beauvoir\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in the mountains and forests of France and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaphne du Maurier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e following the River Rhone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA single question pulses through their walks: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow does a woman change once she becomes windswept?\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39422167285826,"sku":"","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/354_e571f399-9622-4316-96ed-bf136b275f27.jpg?v=1626961790","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/windswept-walking-in-the-footsteps-of-remarkable-women-paperback","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}