"Above all,do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness."-Sren KierkegaardDuncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and publishing books on the subject. He has described the whys,hows,and wheres of traveling on foot for various magazines and newspapers,includingThe Times(London),theFinancial Times,Condé Nast Traveler,andVogue. He has edited two other collections on walking:While Wandering: A Walking Companion(originallyThe Vintage Book of Walking) andThe Burning Leg: Walking Scenes from Classic Fiction.Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk out a rhythm for their lines and the novelists who put their characters on a path. But the best insights,the deepest and most joyous examinations of this simple activity are to be found in nonfiction-in essays,travelogues,and memoirs.Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walkingrounds up the most memorable walker-writers from the 1700s to the modern day,from country hikers to urban strollers,from the rationalists to the truly outlandish. Follow in the footsteps of William Hazlitt,George Sand,Rebecca Solnit,Will Self,and dozens of others. Keep up with them-and be astonished.
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Publisher: Notting Hill EditionsISBN: 9781912559190Number of pages: 192Weight: 200 gDimensions: 190 x 123 x 20 mm
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'Here is a book as certain to lift the spirits as the activity to which it is dedicated: going for a walk. Duncan Minshull is fast emerging as the laureate of walking.'- Andrew Martin,Country Life;'This anthology gathers 36 testimonies to walking's invigorating literary power in particular. Writers from Petrarch to Franz Kafka to Will Self have recorded their enthusiasm for "ambling,rambling,tramping,trekking,stomping and striding."Higher-quality endorsements of the creative value of walking than these would be hard to find.'- The Atlantic
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