bOffering a beguiling view of the history of walking, iWanderersi guides us through the different ways of seeing--of being--articulated by ten pathfinding women writers. p A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of 'knowing' that they found along the path.--Raynor Winn, author of iThe Salt Pathib pbI opened this book and instantly found that I was part of a conversation I didn't want to leave. A dazzling, inspirational history.--Helen Mort, author of iNo Map Could Show Themib p This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. iWanderersi traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter--who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England--to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles acro