In Her Element: Women and the Landscape – an anthology
Edited with introductory essay by Jane MacNamee
Launched at the Hay Festival and serialized on BBC Radio 4.
Walking Wales
‘An utterly absorbing and inspiring collection of work by women in Wales, which can hardly fail to touch the heart, and strengthen our connection with landscape, nature and the elements… a perfect antidote to our high-speed, complex, over-structured, and often pointlessly busy 21st century lives. A book to treasure.’
Publisher’s Information:
Mountaineers, amblers, star gazers, cavers, farmers, artists, sailors and ecologists – 20 women from all over Wales recount their deep personal connections to the places, the elements and the wildlife which have shaped their lives – their loves, their joys and losses, their inner and their outer worlds. This anthology finds as its subject the unique bond with and respect for the natural world which comes over time spent in the company of wild things.
Published by Honno Welsh Women’s Press 2008, available from your local bookshop or online from Gwales.com
Praise for In Her Element:
‘Wonderfully descriptive, this is nature writing at its best…’ Iolo Williams, Welsh ornithologist, TV presenter and author.
‘What these pieces are about is the solace and healing and beauty and peace to be found in unsentimental belonging, in connection, in emotional engagement with both surrroundings and writing. Mental and physical ailments are offered medicine here, of a rare and precious sort. This is what we live for – to find such moments of calm.’ Niall Griffiths, author.
‘This is a precious book, full of memory, observation and insight … its great strength is the celebration of the feminine principle in all its poignant, sometimes humorous, always passionate glory.’ Resurgence & Ecologist
‘Elemental prose that beautifully captures the haunting spirit of the Welsh landscape…’
Hidden Europe