Beneath My Feet

Writers on Walking

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2020 | 2nd Paperback original
Notting Hill Editions (Verlag)
978-1-912559-19-0 (ISBN)

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This delightful anthology rounds up the most memorable walker-writers, 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. Follow in the footsteps of Virginia Woolf, George Sand, Rebecca Solnit, Will Self, and dozens more.

“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.” —Søren Kierkegaard

Duncan 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, including The Times (London), the Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveler, and Vogue. He has edited two other collections on walking: While Wandering: A Walking Companion (originally The Vintage Book of Walking) and The 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 Walking rounds 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.

Duncan Minshull has published two previous books on walking. While Wandering (Random House) and The Burning Leg (Hesperus Press), and written about the subject for a variety of newspapers and magazines including The Times, Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, Conde Nast Traveller and The Lady.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2020
Einführung	Duncan Minshull
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	123 x 190 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-10	1-912559-19-6 / 1912559196
ISBN-13	978-1-912559-19-0 / 9781912559190
Zustand	Neuware