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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere.” —Jack KerouacFrom Duncan Minshull, the UK’s “laureate of walking, ” a collection of more than fifty writings about hiking the globe from contemporary and classic authors such as Mark Twain, William Boyd, Edith Wharton, Helen Garner, Rabindranath Tagore, and many more.Following on from the success of Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking and Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, the UK’s ‘laureate of walking, ...

Where can a walk take you?It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking.In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. These are stories to dip into, from all walks of life. Together they capture the magic and opportunity that c...

Where can a walk take you?

Where can a walk take you?

Where can a walk take you?

Where can a walk take you?

Sauntering features sixty walker-writers--classic and current--who roam Europe by foot. Twenty-two countries are traversed. We join Henriette d'Angeville, the second woman to climb Mont Blanc, Nellie Bly roaming the trenches of the First World War, Werner Herzog on a personal pilgrimage through Germany, Hans Christian Andersen in quarantine, Joseph Conrad in Cracow, Rebecca Solnit reimagining change on the streets of Prague, and Robert Macfarl...

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It is good to collect things, but better to go on walks. This, the first comprehensive anthology on the subject, delves into why we walk and how we walk, walking and wooing, walking into trouble and marching out. Then some of us will walk to meet the Maker.