Mariella Frostrup is one of the UK's leading journalists, broadcasters and critics. She was the presenter of Open Book on Radio 4 for eighteen years before moving to Times Radio, and has judged the Booker Prize.
Required reading for anyone who assumed that the road less travelled was a solely masculine preserve * Dublin Sunday Independent, Must Reads of 2019 * This fine anthology brings a female voice to a subject too long dominated by men... It curates some incredible tales' * Wanderlust * At a time when #MeToo is striking rather a strident note, these insights into the peculiar experiences and observations of courageous and articulate women in a male-dominated world are a joy to read * Country Life * Like any good travel book, Wild Women succeeds in casting the reader's mind off on journeys of its own, inspiring fresh plans and what the Germans call Fernweh, or a longing for faraway places * TLS * A stirring whistle-stop tour, led by women who often risked disapproval in leaving home to roam the world * Vanity Fair *