26 Apr 2025 - 11:15
There She Goes: Esa Aldegheri, Jemma Neville & Leena Rustom Nammari
We welcome three
intrepid adventurers to celebrate a brand-new collection of Scottish travel
writing, There She Goes: New Travel Writing by Women, as part of our Life’s
Fundamentals series. These wide-ranging stories consider the role that travel
and movement play in our lives, remarkable for their everyday nature, and
rooted in the common experience of moving through the world as a woman.
Esa Aldegheri, the book’s editor, shares her experience of collecting
stories which are largely absent from the canon of ‘real’, published travel
writing. Leena Rustom Nammari brings us an account of crossing the El Jisir
bridge – the only official border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan –
as a Palestinian travelling away from her homeland. And Jemma Neville shares
a different kind of travel log, domestic diaries from the foothills of new
motherhood with twins, including days when getting out of the house is an
endurance feat.
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