Beneath my feet : writers on walking

Book 2018

"Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk on a rhythm for their lines and the novelists who put their characters on a path. Beneath my feet rounds up the most memorable walker-writers from the 1300's to the modern day, from country hikers to urban strollers, from the rationalists to the truly outlandish. All of them analyse our need to put one foot in front of the other."--Back cover.

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ISBN:

9781910749982

Description:

xix, 169 pages ; 19 cm

Contents:

Introduction / Duncan Minshull
Ready for anything / Ernest Delahaye
Few people walk well / Frank Tatchell
I walk for health and salvation / Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
I walk because senses are heightened / Nicholas Shakespeare
I walk for thoughts, experiences, arrivals / Rebecca Solnit
The dog and I / Lucy Hughes-Hallett
I wanted for nothing / Chevalier de la Tocnaye
Barefoot through bogs and only a pair of shorts / John Hillaby
The coat will go back to the cupboard / A. H. Sidgwick
And I walk for a secret feeling of poetic capacity / Xavier de Maistre
Roasted in an oven / John Muir
Our feet absorb the Earth's goodness / James Leith Macbeth Bain
In stinging rain / Mary Kingsley
Through fields of snow / Henry David Thoreau
Never look up / N. Brooke, MD
The fog shut down on us / Mark Twain
Madness / Apsley Cherry-Garrard
I like to go by myself / Willliam Hazlitt
Never took any companion either / Thomas de Quincey
Choose company with unusual care / Petrarch
A good humoured multitude / Charles Dickens
She wanted to take a walk / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Great men have been enthusiastic walkers / Leslie Stephen
No friendly reception on foot / Karl Philipp Moritz
The inevitable end of every footpath / Richard Jefferies
A good deal odoriferous / James Boswell
Shouting children / Fanny Kemble
Don't bleed on me / Edward Hoagland
Traffic torrential / Christopher Hope
Trepidation / Kamila Shamsie
No need to hurry / George Sand
A dawdling observer / Lauren Elkin
Between tea and dinner / Virginia Woolf
Is this a real city? / Will Self
I must camp / Robert Louis Stevenson
In a sudden access of restlessness / Franz Kafka
Afterword

LCCN:

2019285030

Control Number:

2748188

Other Authors:

Minshull, Duncan, editor, writer of introduction

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