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There She Goes: New travel writing by women
There she goes brings together seventeen women writers – of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry – in an anthology of travel tales to inspire, encourage and empower women adventuring through the world in different ways and stages of life.
There she goes celebrates the stories of women getting on with getting from one place to another – the grit, courage and determination of moving through the world with babies, with periods, with grief and loss, with the menopause, with magic and humour, with bodies that are ill or disabled or seen as foreign and Other. These are stories so often shared between women verbally but – despite the drama, excitement and humour they contain– are rarely printed.
This is a book offering a new perspective on what it means to be adventurous. In times where fear and worry seem so prevalent, it is a gift of courage and celebration.
There she goes celebrates the stories of women getting on with getting from one place to another – the grit, courage and determination of moving through the world with babies, with periods, with grief and loss, with the menopause, with magic and humour, with bodies that are ill or disabled or seen as foreign and Other. These are stories so often shared between women verbally but – despite the drama, excitement and humour they contain– are rarely printed.
This is a book offering a new perspective on what it means to be adventurous. In times where fear and worry seem so prevalent, it is a gift of courage and celebration.
- GenresEssaysTravelNonfiction
224 pages, Paperback
Published October 7, 2025
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July 18, 2025
Favs include 'Dispathes from a road less travelled', 'What is it to stay', 'From Sunday school to Salem, mass', 'Rewriting the hero's journey' and 'Grandma apples'.
December 19, 2025
There She Goes: New travel writing by women, edited by Esa Aldegheri, is a powerful, intimate anthology that reclaims travel writing as something lived, embodied, and deeply human.
What makes this collection resonate is not distance covered or destinations conquered, but the courage required simply to move through the world. The essays and pieces written by women at different stages of life honor experiences so often excluded from traditional travel narratives: traveling with illness, grief, disability, motherhood, aging bodies, and shifting identities.
Contributors such as Alice Tarbuck and Alison Phipps bring emotional clarity and quiet defiance to stories that feel urgent precisely because they are honest. The book reframes adventure not as fearlessness, but as persistence and in doing so, offers readers both solidarity and strength.
There She Goes is less about escape and more about presence. It’s a meaningful contribution to contemporary travel writing and feminist literature, and it deserves to reach readers who are searching for narratives that reflect their lived realities.
What makes this collection resonate is not distance covered or destinations conquered, but the courage required simply to move through the world. The essays and pieces written by women at different stages of life honor experiences so often excluded from traditional travel narratives: traveling with illness, grief, disability, motherhood, aging bodies, and shifting identities.
Contributors such as Alice Tarbuck and Alison Phipps bring emotional clarity and quiet defiance to stories that feel urgent precisely because they are honest. The book reframes adventure not as fearlessness, but as persistence and in doing so, offers readers both solidarity and strength.
There She Goes is less about escape and more about presence. It’s a meaningful contribution to contemporary travel writing and feminist literature, and it deserves to reach readers who are searching for narratives that reflect their lived realities.
February 5, 2026
There She Goes feels less like an anthology and more like a long, generous conversation carried across borders. These writers don’t treat travel as postcard scenery but as lived weather messy, bodily, funny, and sometimes frightening.
I appreciated how many kinds of movement are allowed to count as adventure. The book makes room for journeys taken with babies and bruises, with illness, with grief, with the stubborn ordinary courage of getting on a bus when the world feels loud. The pieces refuse the old heroic travel pose and replace it with something truer: women navigating the actual textures of their lives.
What lingers is the collective voice. Different styles, different countries, yet a shared insistence that stories usually spoken between friends deserve print and light. There’s humour here, and anger, and tenderness, and a welcome sense that being “foreign” can be both wound and doorway.
A warm, necessary collection that redraws the map of what it means to be adventurous.
I appreciated how many kinds of movement are allowed to count as adventure. The book makes room for journeys taken with babies and bruises, with illness, with grief, with the stubborn ordinary courage of getting on a bus when the world feels loud. The pieces refuse the old heroic travel pose and replace it with something truer: women navigating the actual textures of their lives.
What lingers is the collective voice. Different styles, different countries, yet a shared insistence that stories usually spoken between friends deserve print and light. There’s humour here, and anger, and tenderness, and a welcome sense that being “foreign” can be both wound and doorway.
A warm, necessary collection that redraws the map of what it means to be adventurous.
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