This large collection of photographs chronicles the singular endeavors of Barbara Moore, a Russian-born, British long-distance walker and radical vegetarian activist. Moore who was the the first woman to make a 3,000‐mile walk from San Francisco to New York, and most of the photographs in the collection show her sojourns across the US. She is seen traipsing along the open road, resting her tired feet, sleeping on the ground, or interesting with locals. One photograph shows a spat with customs agents at San Francisco International Airport, which began over her desire to bring fruits in from Australia. This affair is recounted in her New York Times obituary, noting that she called the customs agents "brutal and irresponsible" for their actions. There are also few photographs of her walks in the UK.

According to her New York Times obituary, she was "born Anya Cherkasova. she was one of the first generation of, women who became engineers after the Russian Revolution. She also was the Soviet Union's long‐distance motorcycling champion in 1932. She came to Britain in 1939 and married an English art teacher, Harry Moore." In addition to her walking, Moore was known to espouse spurious health statements and theories, such as her claim that she would have a baby when she was 100 and live to the age of 150. Moore was also a Breatharian, a practice which is based on the belief that humans can live without food, if they correctly understand the ability to "consume the Universe's energy."

She staunchly rejected the claim that her walks were publicity stunts, and won a libel suit against a British paper that said otherwise. Toward the end of her life, she was bitterly embroiled in a fight with city officials over a planned laboratory in her home in Bisley, Surrey, where she wished to study her radical diet (which she claimed had cured her leukemia). She took the feud to Britain's High Court and lost, have lost about $85,000 in the process. Refusing to back down, she was cited for contempt and jailed. The fight broke her spirit and she eventually died, penniless and alone, from her steadfast refusal to eat. In her obituary, he ex-husband eulogized her by stating, "I started off by thinking she was a nut case... But I came to realize she was the greatest woman I knew.”