Glowing Still

Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar.

'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph

'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday

'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

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