Glowing Still av Sara Wheeler

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Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar.<BR/><BR/>'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph<BR/><BR/>'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday<BR/><BR/>'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<BR/><BR/> 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