Glowing Still

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Her feminist perspective is thoughtful and incisive, but she also has an eye for the details of everyday life, which can reveal more about a place than a thousand statistics or any macho account of derring-do... Disarmingly modest and dazzlingly eloquent, one could listen to her recollections all day One of the pleasures of this engrossing book is Wheeler's knack for bringing a country alive through small details A great read, full of acute observation, strongly held beliefs, good stories, and telling detail, all leavened with wry humour [An] excellent memoir, funny, fierce and challenging... Intensely curious and observant, [Wheeler] researches in depth and keeps detailed notebooks... If there is a certain melancholy in this book, there is also exhilaration, and hope [A] brilliant new memoir... Wheeler unearths the notebooks in which she has recorded her far-flung trips over the years Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel [Wheeler is] an absolute hoot. But also deadly serious, fabulously well-read, thoughtful, self-deprecating - everything you'd want while slowly crossing some vast continent by bus or by train. Glowing Still is the next best thing to hopping on board with her... An ingenious piece of work... dozens of intriguing insights and remarks about the life of the travel writer Part travelogue, part memoir, Glowing Still smoulders with anger about [...] the historically contested place of women travel writers... It's also a funny and revealing account of her own journey as a writer... colourful, deceptively capacious... Wheeler excels at uncovering illuminating details about the people she meets Magnificent and unusual... Glowing Still is a thoughtful and entertaining meditation on identity, geography and the position of the self in the world... [Wheeler writes] with humour, pathos and genuine curiosity about herself and her work, revealing the backstory to her many award-winning books Martha Gellhorn is one of Sara Wheeler's heroines, and something of [Gellhorn's] feisty and defiant sentiments runs through her memoir, which is both enjoyable and impressive... Wheeler is remarkable for the sheer amount of travelling she has done over the last forty years Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations... throughout her entertaining and thoughtful voyage through notebooks amassed over decades, any wistfulness is amply balanced by a sense of freedom [A] sprightly memoir of her life on the road... Wheeler clothes her experiences with humour and imagination Expand reviews