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Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
Sara Wheeler
Travel writing
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- Paperback Sep 10, 2024 | 9780349145105 | RRP $26.99 Pre-Order
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- Paperback Sep 10, 2024 | 9780349145105 | RRP $26.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Jun 13, 2023 | 9781408716731 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 16, 2023 | 9781408716748 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 16, 2023 | 9781405557757 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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Abacus
- Paperback Sep 10, 2024 | 9780349145105 | RRP $26.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Jun 13, 2023 | 9781408716731 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 16, 2023 | 9781408716748 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 16, 2023 | 9781405557757 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Sep 10, 2024 | 9780349145105 | RRP $26.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Jun 13, 2023 | 9781408716731 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 16, 2023 | 9781408716748 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 16, 2023 | 9781405557757 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar
'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday
'Magnificent and unusual' Viv Groskop, Spectator
Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life - what is 'important, revealing or funny' - in a notoriously testosterone-laden field. Growing up among blue-collar Conservatives in Bristol where 'we didn't know anyone who wasn't like us', Wheeler knew she needed to get away. In her twenties she began a dramatic escape: Pole to Pole, via Poland. Glowing Still recalls happy days on India's Puri Express; an Antarctic lavatory through which a seal popped up (hot fishy breath!); and the louche life of a Parisian shopgirl. Corralling reindeer with the Sami in Arctic Sweden and towing her baby on a sledge, a helpful herdsman advised her to put foil down her bra to facilitate nursing.
Launching at Nubility, Wheeler voyages, via small children, to the welcoming port of Invisibility (she leaves Immobility for the next volume). As she writes in the introduction, when she set sail 'Role models were scarce in the travel-writing game.' But advancing years usher in unheralded freedoms, and journey's end finds Wheeler at peace among Zanzibar dhows, contemplating our connection with other lives - the irreplaceable value that travel brings - and paying homage to her heroines, among them Martha Gellhorn, the ineffable war correspondent who furnishes Wheeler's epigraph: 'I do not wish to be good. I wish to be hell on wheels, or dead.'
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Praise for Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
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[A] sprightly memoir of her life on the road... Wheeler clothes her experiences with humour and imagination - The Times
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Martha Gellhorn is one of Sara Wheeler's heroines, and something of [Gellhorn's] feisty and defiant sentiments runs through her memoir, which is both enjoyable and impressive... Wheeler is remarkable for the sheer amount of travelling she has done over the last forty years - Literary Review
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Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations... throughout her entertaining and thoughtful voyage through notebooks amassed over decades, any wistfulness is amply balanced by a sense of freedom - Mail on Sunday
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Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel - Daily Telegraph
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Magnificent and unusual... Glowing Still is a thoughtful and entertaining meditation on identity, geography and the position of the self in the world... [Wheeler writes] with humour, pathos and genuine curiosity about herself and her work, revealing the backstory to her many award-winning books - Spectator
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Part travelogue, part memoir, Glowing Still smoulders with anger about [...] the historically contested place of women travel writers... It's also a funny and revealing account of her own journey as a writer... colourful, deceptively capacious... Wheeler excels at uncovering illuminating details about the people she meets - Times Literary Supplement
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