After losing five family members in as many months, RH began to run. She also began to research the trailblazing, tenacious women who first did outdoor sports in the late 1800s – often in long woollen skirts. The backlash too comes under her scrutiny, the continuing inequalities of the sporting world, and the hostility that almost every woman experiences to this day when she takes to running.
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978178474289820/04/2023
Categories: 01. Spring Books 2023: Biographical, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Sport, Spring Books 2023
Tag: Memoir
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