How women have been airbrushed from the history of hillwalking
FEW YEARS AGO I lived in Boston for a while. One Saturday I took the train out to Concord, seat of the American Revolution and home to writers galore: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Thoreau. I hiked from the train station into town, and from there to Emerson’s house. A newly-made route linked Emerson’s home with Walden Pond, where
