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
(author)
£25.00
Edition:Hardback978178474289820/04/2023
Categories: 01. Spring Books 2023: Biographical, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Sport, Spring Books 2023
Tag: Memoir
From a Bookshelf nearby
-
Rescuing My Father & Other Stories
Paperback £10.00 -
Those who read Clare's Something of His Art, about J S Bach, or The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal (or others) will know that Clare is a writer of exquisite sensibility and nuance. He i... read more
-
He was in pre-Revolutionary Iran, Turkey, France, the USA... A Europhile, with trenchant views on Brexit.
They Call It Diplomacy
Hardback £25.00 -
My theory and practice is to say yes to life and then I'll see how I manage along the way. Part memoir, part manifesto of a fiercely independent spirit; intelligent and lyrical.
The Soul of a Woman
Hardback £14.99