In the history of walking, the principal figures have been men. In her book Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women, Annabel Abbs literally follows in the footsteps of eight avid women walkers throughout history.
in the natural world. That privilege to do whatever it is we wish to do, see what we wish to see, for whatever our purpose, in safety, without being limited by our vulnerabilities or worrying for our lives.Annabel Abbs has a near out-of-body experience after a horrific fall, literally breaking her skull, where she realizes “without my legs I am captive.”
With an intensity of purpose, Abbs not only compiles their histories and idiosyncrasies, while offering numerous scientific and psychological insights with respect to walking—but she follows in their footsteps, revisits their paths, albeit over 100 years after the fact in some cases. She commences her family’s journey by following the Isar, where she hopes to experience first hand the locale of the six-week life-changing excursion of Frieda von Richtofen—the subject of Abbs’s first book.
I had not heard of Gwen John, nor the many other women artists of John’s time. I wanted to feel what Abbs felt when she compared two self portraits of Gwen John, who was Welsh but mostly lived in Paris and was both lover and model to Auguste Rodin. Gwen John walked with another woman, also a painter, carrying easels and paints on their backs, following the Garonne River, from Bordeaux to Toulouse, sleeping in haystacks, in parks.
The book is laced with memoir. Abbs remarks: “To pack a rucksack is to know yourself.” We hear intimate stories about Abbs’s girlhood, stories where she allows for her own vulnerability—a telling window into her explorations of the vulnerabilities and analyses of the other women.—both 100 years ago and now.
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