Author: Graham Hoyland
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008156131
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
‘The most effective advertisement for the countryside I've ever encountered’ Daily Mail Walking Through Spring follows Graham Hoyland’s journey as he traces a new national trail, walking north with Spring from the South Coast to the Borders.
Walking Through Spring
Author: Graham Hoyland
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008156131
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
‘The most effective advertisement for the countryside I've ever encountered’ Daily Mail Walking Through Spring follows Graham Hoyland’s journey as he traces a new national trail, walking north with Spring from the South Coast to the Borders.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008156131
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
‘The most effective advertisement for the countryside I've ever encountered’ Daily Mail Walking Through Spring follows Graham Hoyland’s journey as he traces a new national trail, walking north with Spring from the South Coast to the Borders.
Walking with Spring
Author: Earl Victor Shaffer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780917953842
Category : Appalachian Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author's account of his four-month hike in 1948 of the entire length of the Appalachian Trail.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780917953842
Category : Appalachian Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author's account of his four-month hike in 1948 of the entire length of the Appalachian Trail.
Walking the Appalachian Trail
Author: Larry Luxenberg
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811744019
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Accounts by thru-hikers, organized by topic. Foreword by hiker Maurice Forrester and stunning color photos by Mike Warren.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811744019
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Accounts by thru-hikers, organized by topic. Foreword by hiker Maurice Forrester and stunning color photos by Mike Warren.
A Walk in the Woods
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674546
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674546
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Wanderlust
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101199555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101199555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
Walking North
Author: Mic Lowther
Publisher: Author's Publishing of North America
ISBN: 9781586190200
Category : Appalachian Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A family hikes the Appalachian Trail in the mid-1970s: a couple and their 10-year-old daughter. This is the husband's story, 34 copies of which were privately printed in 1989 for friends and family. Five of those went into the A.T. "underground" and, abetted by the Internet, the book became something of a cult classic.
Publisher: Author's Publishing of North America
ISBN: 9781586190200
Category : Appalachian Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A family hikes the Appalachian Trail in the mid-1970s: a couple and their 10-year-old daughter. This is the husband's story, 34 copies of which were privately printed in 1989 for friends and family. Five of those went into the A.T. "underground" and, abetted by the Internet, the book became something of a cult classic.
Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Ben Shattuck
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1953534090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A New England Indie Bestselller A New York Times Best Book of Summer, a Wall Street Journal and Town & Country Best Book of Spring “A gorgeous reminder that walking is the most radical form of locomotion nowadays.” —Nick Offerman “I think Thoreau would have liked this book, and that’s a high recommendation.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to Provincetown’s fingertip. This is the first of six journeys taken by Shattuck, each one inspired by a walk once taken by Henry David Thoreau. After the Cape, Shattuck goes up Mount Katahdin and Mount Wachusett, down the coastline of his hometown, and then through the Allagash. Along the way, Shattuck encounters unexpected characters, landscapes, and stories, seeing for himself the restorative effects that walking can have on a dampened spirit. Over years of following Thoreau, Shattuck finds himself uncovering new insights about family, love, friendship, and fatherhood, and understanding more deeply the lessons walking can offer through life’s changing seasons. Intimate, entertaining, and beautifully crafted, Six Walks is a resounding tribute to the ways walking in nature can inspire us all.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1953534090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A New England Indie Bestselller A New York Times Best Book of Summer, a Wall Street Journal and Town & Country Best Book of Spring “A gorgeous reminder that walking is the most radical form of locomotion nowadays.” —Nick Offerman “I think Thoreau would have liked this book, and that’s a high recommendation.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to Provincetown’s fingertip. This is the first of six journeys taken by Shattuck, each one inspired by a walk once taken by Henry David Thoreau. After the Cape, Shattuck goes up Mount Katahdin and Mount Wachusett, down the coastline of his hometown, and then through the Allagash. Along the way, Shattuck encounters unexpected characters, landscapes, and stories, seeing for himself the restorative effects that walking can have on a dampened spirit. Over years of following Thoreau, Shattuck finds himself uncovering new insights about family, love, friendship, and fatherhood, and understanding more deeply the lessons walking can offer through life’s changing seasons. Intimate, entertaining, and beautifully crafted, Six Walks is a resounding tribute to the ways walking in nature can inspire us all.
Walking on Water
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451628323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
When the long walk from Seattle to Key West finally nears an end, Alan Christoffersen must return to the west and face yet another crisis just as he has begun to heal from so much loss.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451628323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
When the long walk from Seattle to Key West finally nears an end, Alan Christoffersen must return to the west and face yet another crisis just as he has begun to heal from so much loss.
Pachinko Road
Author: Craig Mod
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998221489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998221489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A Walk Across America
Author: Peter Jenkins
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006095955X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. "I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -- from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many miles later, he learned lessons about his country and himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new generation to get out, hit the road and explore.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006095955X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. "I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -- from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many miles later, he learned lessons about his country and himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new generation to get out, hit the road and explore.