{"product_id":"annabel-abbs-windswept-2022-paperback","title":"Annabel Abbs: Windswept [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Moving and memorable'\u003c\/b\u003e Virginia Nicholson, author of \u003ci\u003eHow Was It for You?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A triumph ... I felt as though I were being lifted, carried up to peaks'\u003c\/b\u003e Charlotte Peacock, author of \u003ci\u003eInto the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautiful and meditative memoir'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor centuries, the wilds have been male territory, while women sat safely confined at home.  But not all women did as they were told, despite the dangers; history reveals women for whom rural walking became inspiration, consolation and liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this powerful and deeply inspiring book, Annabel Abbs uncovers women who refused to conform, who recognised a biological, emotional and artistic need for wilderness, water and desert - and who took the courageous step of walking unpeopled and often forbidding landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart wild-walk, part memoir, \u003ci\u003eWindswept\u003c\/i\u003e follows an exhilarating journey from Abbs's isolated, car-less childhood to her walking the remote paths trodden by extraordinary women, including \u003cb\u003eGeorgia O'Keeffe\u003c\/b\u003e in the empty plains of Texas and New Mexico, \u003cb\u003eNan Shepherd \u003c\/b\u003ein the mountains of Scotland, \u003cb\u003eGwen John\u003c\/b\u003e following the Garonne\u003cb\u003e, Simone de Beauvoir\u003c\/b\u003e in the mountains and forests of France and \u003cb\u003eDaphne du Maurier\u003c\/b\u003e along the River Rhone.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA single question pulses through their walks:\u003cb\u003e How does a woman change once she becomes windswept?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abbs, Annabel","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53150240571731,"sku":"9781529324730","price":18.56,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53150240538963,"sku":"XV81529324730","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/abbs-annabel-annabel-abbs-windswept-2022-paperback-1224695666.jpg?v=1772481938","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/annabel-abbs-windswept-2022-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}