I still am : a woman, pissed-off & curious /
When she was twenty-one years old, Su Friedrich embarked on a transformative five-month solo trip through nine countries in north and west Africa. Fifty years later, through her letters, diary entries and the black-and-white photographs captured on her 35mm Olympus, an enduring travel story unfolds....
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Seven Stories Press,
[2026].
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| Summary: | When she was twenty-one years old, Su Friedrich embarked on a transformative five-month solo trip through nine countries in north and west Africa. Fifty years later, through her letters, diary entries and the black-and-white photographs captured on her 35mm Olympus, an enduring travel story unfolds. As she hitches rides south through the Sahara, she documents her encounters with the people she meets from Algeria to Nigeria (during a coup) and from Ghana to Morocco. Friedrich not only weaves a rich tapestry of Africa in the mid-1970s but also fills each page with her personal discoveries at this moment of tremendous ferment. Friedrich has unearthed her intimate and visually rich account "... for/about every woman on every continent who still wants, or who still fights, to be free from the bullshit proffered by the patriarchy, and to all the women who have wandered the world to find the world." |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 420 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781644215005 1644215004 |