{"product_id":"glowing-still-a-womans-life-on-the-road","title":"Glowing Still : A Woman's Life on the Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBritain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlowing Still is the story of her travelling life \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– what is 'important, revealing or funny' \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlowing 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).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs 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 \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– the irreplaceable value that travel brings \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– 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. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eI wish to be hell on wheels, or dead.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sara Wheeler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43810520400129,"sku":"9781408716731","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2023-07-31T110342.911.png?v=1690797833","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/glowing-still-a-womans-life-on-the-road","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}