{"product_id":"glowing-still-hardcover","title":"Glowing Still - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Wheeler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Magnificent and unusual... Glowing Still is a thoughtful and entertaining meditation on identity, geography and the position of the self in the world' Viv Groskop, Spectator \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 S疥i in Arctic Sweden and towing her baby on a sledge, a helpful herdsman advised her to put foil down her bra to facilitate nursing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.'\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Wheeler's books include the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eTerra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChile: Travels in a Thin Country, Evia: An Island Apart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Magnetic North\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eNotes from the Arctic Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, whichwas chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: \u003ci\u003eCherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eToo Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton\u003c\/i\u003e, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in \u003ci\u003eO My America! \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765342306592,"sku":"9781408716731","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9657c2f6a16fca83b434926eb3d7ecb0.webp?v=1780266503","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/glowing-still-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}