These Books Are Made For Walking
In the latest of our series of lists of otherwise unrelated books on a theme that takes our fancy, here's our selection of books that consider walking, that take us on walks, or that generally amble around the subject.
Bloomsbury Boots
£8.99
Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape
Human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh explores recent Palestinian history via a series of walks through the undulating hills and wadis of the We... See details
£14.99
The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image
The Romantic era was the golden age of walking, and Jeffrey Robinson’s elegant survey of walking literature celebrates its heroes – Wordsworth (Wil... See details
£9.99
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople – From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
In 1933 the eighteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out to walk from Rotterdam to Istanbul. His account of that journey, of which this is the fi... See details
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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland – The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
In 1933 the eighteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out to walk from Rotterdam to Istanbul. His account of that journey, of which this is the... See details
£9.99
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Walking can be many things – protest, pilgrimage, meditation, exercise, simple necessity – and in this engaging cultural history, Rebecca Solnit co... See details
£8.99
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Rousseau’s last work consists of ten Promenades, taken mainly around Paris following his return there from exile in 1770. Rousseau finds him... See details
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The Songlines
As a guide to the beliefs and ritual practice of Australian aboriginals The Songlines may well be wholly unreliable. What Chatwin provides i... See details
£12.95
Metropolitan Writings
Hazlitt’s London writings capture the liveliness and variety of Regency London, with its street jugglers, sportsmen, dandies and coffee-house bores... See details
£8.99
The Long March
In 1934 the 200,000-strong army of the fledgling Chinese Communist Party was driven out of its stronghold in Southern China by the Nationalist forc... See details
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The Walk
‘To people sitting in a blustering dust-churning automobile I always present my austere and angry face, and they do not deserve a better one. Th... See details
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Rings of Saturn
In August 1992 W.G. Sebald ‘set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have co... See details