Sara Wheeler

Sara Wheeler on Glowing Still

Sara Wheeler, one of Britain's foremost travel writers and author of Mud & Stars and Terra Incognita, will be coming to St Andrews to share her adventures from the Antarctic to Zanzibar.

Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life in a notoriously testosterone-laden field. Growing up among blue-collar Conservatives in Bristol, Wheeler knew she wanted to get away. In her twenties she began a dramatic escape: Pole to Pole, via Poland.

Glowing Still recalls happy days on India's Puri Express; an Antarctic lavatory through which a seal unexpectedly popped up; and the louche life of a Parisian shop girl. Corralling reindeer with the Sami in Arctic Sweden and towing her baby on a sledge, this is the life of adventure that Wheeler has finally put to paper.

Unheralded freedoms come with advancing years and finds Wheeler at peace among Zanzibar dhows. She contemplates our connection with other people, the irreplaceable value that travel brings, and pays homage to one of her heroines, Martha Gellhorn, the ineffable war correspondent who furnishes Wheeler's epigraph: 'I do not wish to be good. I wish to be hell on wheels, or dead.'

This will be an amazing event, so make sure to book on to not miss out!