WanderersThis is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carterwho desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern Englandto modern walker writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was