Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women

Signed by the authorThe 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. A 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. For 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. In 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. Part wild-walk, part memoir, Windswept follows an exhilarating journey from Abbs` isolated car-less childhood to her walking the remote paths trodden by extraordinary women including Georgia O`Keeffe in the empty plains of Texas and New Mexico, Nan Shepherd in the mountains of Scotland, Gwen John following the Garonne, Simone de Beauvoir in the mountains and forests of France and Daphne du Maurier following the River Rhone. A single question pulses through their walks: How does a woman change once she becomes windswept?

Related Products:

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history`s remarkable women Waymaking: An anthology of women`s adventure writing, poetry and art Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London`s Remarkable Women London`s Famous Footsteps – Women Writers London`s Famous Footsteps – Women Artists Deadlier: 100 of the Best Crime Stories Written by Women Walking The Invisible: Following in the Brontรซs` Footsteps Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World Heart of the Hero: The Remarkable Women Who Inspired the Great Polar Explorers Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography Ireland`s Wild Atlantic Way: A Walking Guide Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels What Would Boudicca Do?: Everyday Problems Solved by History`s Most Remarkable Women Default ThumbnailPolar Wives: The Remarkable Women Behind the World`s Most Daring Explorers Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me – a Memoir Wild Women Daily Rituals: Women at Work Walking and Trekking in Zagori: Walking routes in Greece`s wild and beautiful northern Pindos mountains Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China`s Hidden Mountains The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering Stories of Women Who Have Shifted the Political Landscape The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World Dartmoor Walking HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook the World 100 Women Who Made History: Meet the Women Who Changed the World Bring Me Sunshine: A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, Snow-Capped Guide to Our Weather Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor`s Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn Georgia O`Keeffe 2022 Mini Wall Calendar Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking March Women March – How Women Won The Vote I Know a Woman: The inspiring connections between the women who have shaped our world: Behind every great woman… is another great woman. Heroines of SOE: Britain`s Secret Women in France Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War The Women Who Built Bristol 1184-2018 Women Fantastically Great Women 100 Postcards