Book Review: Waymaking: An Anthology Of Women’s Adventure Writing, Poetry, and Art
Take a moment and browse through your library of outdoor adventure books. After a quick look, it’s fair to say that women are under represented in this niche. In a genre that’s often monopolized by males, Waymaking is a powerful book that will help to address the balance of gender in the outdoor adventure literature niche.
Waymaking: An Anthology Of Women’s Adventure Writing, Poetry, and Art is edited by Helen Mort, Claire Carter, Heather Dawe, Cand amilla Barnard. The book is filled with inspirational works from a collection of respected contributors including “Alpinist magazine editor Katie Ives, multi-award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, adventurers Sarah Outen and Anna McNuff, renowned filmmaker Jen Randall and many more” adventurous women.
Waymaking is published by Vertebrate Publishing, a leading publisher in the outdoor adventure niche. This beautiful collection of prose, poetry, and art highlights the women who are living and breathing the lifestyles that we are all jealous of. Climbers, runners, swimmers, skiers, bikers, sailors, workers, and trekkers all joined together for Waymaking to “express the creativity inspired by being outdoors.”
Ideally, Waymaking will inspire people from around the world to get outside and enjoy the wild adventures, stunning nature, and the great outdoors. But hopefully it will also create a ripple effect that will encourage more women to shares their tales of adventures from the world’s most incredible places.
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In Waymaking, you’ll hear from a wide variety of inspiring female voices. Perhaps, the introduction to Waymaking puts it best, “In Waymaking you will find women seeking solitude and women traveling in company; women out to conquer and women who need to commune; women who are fearless, and women battling their fear; women who are mothers, daughters, wives, and lovers, and women who tell us nothing about those parts of their lives; white women, women of colour and First Nations women; women of deep faith and of none; bruised, broken, and heartsore women, and women focused only on how their skill and their sinews and muscles can carry them up, over, into and away.”
The poetry, visual art, photography, and adventure writing of Waymaking will take you to the far corners of the globe… “From Cumbria to Antarctica, the Alps to Alaska, Patagonia to Wyoming and Ireland to Australia, meet the adventures, the waymakers, the women who have found their place in the wild world.” A big thank you goes out to all of the contributors to Waymaking:
Jean Atkin | Polly Atkin | Camilla Barnard | Hazel Barnard | Sandy Bennett-Haber | Jen Benson | Judith Brown | Claire Carter | Genevieve Carver | Imogen Cassels | Maria Coffey | Lee Craigie | Joanna Croston | Lizzy Dalton | Nick Davies | Heather Dawe | Cath Drake | Paula Dunn | Lily Dyu | Caroline Eustace | Hazel Findlay | Paula Flach | Anna Fleming | Nikki Frumkin | Claire Giordano | Alison Grant | Geraldine Green | Lilace Mellin Guignard | Alyson Hallett | Melissa Harrison | Leslie Hsu Oh | Kathryn Hummel | Katie Ives | Kathleen Jones | Mab Jones | Solana Joy | Dr Judy Kendall | Anja Konig | Tami Knight | Tara Kramer | Dr Alexandra Lewis | Tessa Lyons | Alice Maddicott | Bernadette McDonald | Anna McNuff | Helen Mort | Evelyn O’Malley | Sarah Outen | Kari Nielsen | Libby Peter | Jen Randall | Penelope Shuttle | Ruth Wiggins | Allison Williams | Pam Williamson | Deziree Wilson | Krystle Wright
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Are you inspired by wild places? Do you love adventure? Are you a sucker for nature? Then Waymaking is a book that you will thoroughly enjoy. When you buy Waymaking, “all royalties will be split equally between two charities: Rape Crisis and the John Muir Trust.”
Waymaking: An Anthology Of Women’s Adventure Writing, Poetry and Art will be published Fall 2018 by Vertebrate Publishing. Vertebrate Publishing sent a copy of Waymaking: An Anthology Of Women’s Adventure Writing, Poetry and Art to Mountain Journey to read and review.
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