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An anthology of new travel writing by and for rebellious women adventuring through the world.
Travel writing can be exclusive, centering macho narratives of discovery and intrepid exploration, often made by men who step out on their own. But what about the everyday traveling we all do, the journeys we make out of necessity, or the stories of women sharing in adventure?
There She Goes seeks to expand and redefine the genre of travel writing. In essays that are both defiant and deeply personal, we see the grit, purpose, and determination of women traveling with babies, with periods, with grief and loss, with menopause, with magic and humor, with bodies that are disabled or seen as foreign and other. Leena Rustom Nammari crosses between the West Bank and Jordan as a Palestinian travelling away from her homeland; Claire Askew recounts her pilgrimage to Salem, to honor the people murdered during the witch trials; and Lee Craigie upends the competitive parameters of an off-road bike race in the Highlands of Scotland
This inspirational collection offers a new perspective on what it means to be adventurous. In times where fear and worry seem so prevalent, it is a gift of courage and celebration.
Praise for There She Goes
“Captivating … Memorable and thought-provoking, the essays do valuable work in broadening what it means to explore … Readers will be eager to take the trip.”Publishers Weekly
“These seventeen essays by women of all ages and backgrounds focus on the quotidian particularities of existing as a woman…The focal experiences represent a version of every woman and create conversations about whose stories are important to tell.”Foreword Reviews
Praise for Free to Go
"An exhilarating story of freedom and constraint, told with a confident and unwavering verve. This is a journey driven by boundless curiosity, and by the desire for connection - across borders, across languages, across time." Malachy Tallack
"...perfectly captures the whole tricky business of being a free-spirited woman at large in the world." Lois Pryce
Esa Aldegheri is a Scottish-Italian writer, scholar and educator. She is the author of Free to Go – across the world on a motorbike (John Murray, 2022), a travel book exploring the limits of freedom and non-freedom, motorbike journeys, motherhood and more. Her other writing has been variously anthologised, has featured on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week and has been published by Granta, Gutter and others. Esa is a Leverhulme scholar at the University of Glasgow, researching how unequal narratives and bordering of refugee journeys affect community integration. She also loves sea swimming, tree climbing and map reading.
Introduction by Esa Aldegheri
Travelling Home from Home by Roxani Krystalli
Dispatches from a Road Less Travelled by Leena Rustom Nammari
Breakfast at Tissardmine by Linda Cracknell
What it Is to Stay by Amanda Thomson
Stay at Home by Sarah Thomas
Following Bone, Land, and Love by Leonie Charlton
From Sunday School to Salem, Mass by Claire Askew
Bleeding Mont Blanc by Anna Fleming
Rewriting the Hero’s Journey by Lee Craigie
How Far My Body Can Go by Marjorie Lotfi
Grandma Apples by Alice Tarbuck
From Our Own Correspondent by Jemma Neville
Spider Mother by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
Midder by Roseanne Watt
A Barren Translation by Alison Phipps
Attention Please by Janette Ayachi
Sea Crossings: Time Circles by Margaret Elphinstone
The Contributors
Acknowledgements
Editorial Note