The Great Outdoors

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In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors

by Rachel Hewitt

Published by Chatto & Windus, £20, hardback

THIS IS A BOOK about loss. The erasure of women’s voices throughout the history of the great outdoors examined within its pages is given a contemporaneous framing through the author’s catastrophic loss of five family members within a year. For Rachel, a professor and ultrarunner, recounting this trauma and her ensuing vulnerability causes her to lose her sense of belonging outdoors: a safe place she’d previously relied upon during hardship from adolescence

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