Glowing Still, Sara Wheeler

Glowing Still, Sara WheelerNew Paperback 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

visionary world of Tudor England When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales

hairy creature has tantalised explorers

And she traces how these rural working-class worlds have changed

What can we learn from the lives of fungi

For the first time too

Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world

and Stellahonoring their late wife and mother

by the Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

they were also seen as fomenters of rebellion

Sea charts bring to life the sixteenth-century adventures of Richard Hawkins sailing to South America

Seismic shifts in almost every area of society were all played out here in miniature – against a backdrop of scattered limestone villages and the softly rolling Howardian Hills

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