Pathfinding
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Pathfinding
The hidden histories and present-day pathways of walking and motherhood and freedom.
In the wake of the complete upheaval of becoming a mother, walker Kerri Andrews finds herself carrying the idea that maybe the hills are no longer for her.
Yet, what she soon discovers are tales of mother-walkers that have long been neglected or hidden away. And with it a sense that there may be a way back into the mountains for her too.
So Kerri begins small, joined on walks on beaches and in cities by women who have also experienced profound changes to their sense of themselves and their bodies. And as Kerri’s journeys become increasingly ambitious — the valleys and peaks of her past beckoning — it becomes clear that these wild places could be hers once more. That there may indeed be a way back to the mountains, and to freedom.
‘Bold, brave... I had the feeling, as I read, that Kerri Andrews might be clearing a path for us all.’ Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal
‘Powerful and unflinchingly honest’ Annabel Abbs, author of Windswept
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781783968442
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Elliott & Thompson Limited
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Kerri Andrews is a writer, walker and academic with a PhD in women’s literature. She is the author of Pathfinding: On Walking and Motherhood; Wanderers: A History of Women Walking and the editor of Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing About Walking, as well as the first ever collection of Nan Shepherd’s letters. She lives in Scotland with her two young children, but it was in the Yorkshire Dales that she discovered the delights of walking, before falling in love first with the Lake District and then the Scottish mountains. She is a member of Mountaineering Scotland and has so far climbed over 120 of Scotland’s Munros.
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