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Britain’s foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar. 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.
Britain’s foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar. 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 Sámi in Arctic Sweden and towing her baby on a sledge, a helpful herdsman advised her to put foil down her bra to facilitate nursing.
After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as ‘Terra Incognita’ and ‘The Magnetic North’, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America 35 years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of 6 women who fled various sorts of trouble in 19th-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves.
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