20 women writers from all over Wales recount their deep personal connections to the landscapes which have shaped their lives - their loves, their joys, their losses, their inner and their outer worlds. These essays present nature as a healer and teacher, and this anthology finds as its subject the unique bond with the natural world which comes over time spent in the company of wild things. Written from a feminine perspective with both new and established voices, In Her Element offers a much needed revision of contemporary British nature writing.
About the book
20 women writers from all over Wales recount their deep personal connections to the landscapes which have shaped their lives - their loves, their joys, their losses, their inner and their outer worlds. These essays present nature as a healer and teacher, and this anthology finds as its subject the unique bond with the natural world which comes over time spent in the company of wild things. Written from a feminine perspective with both new and established voices, In Her Element offers a much needed revision of contemporary British nature writing.