“There was nowhere to go but everywhere.” —Jack Kerouac From
Duncan Minshull, the UK’s “laureate of walking,” a collection
of more than fifty writings about hiking the globe from
contemporary and classic authors such as Mark Twain, William Boyd,
Edith Wharton, Helen Garner, Rabindranath Tagore, and many more.
Following on from the success of Beneath My Feet: Writers on
Walking and Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, the UK’s ‘laureate
of walking,’ Duncan Minshull, brings together the recorded
footfalls of more than fifty walker-writers who have travelled the
world’s seven continents. From the 1500s to current times come a
memorable band of explorers and adventurers, scientists and
missionaries, pleasure-seekers and literary drifters recalling
their experiences and asking themselves a compelling question—why
travel this way in the first place? With contributions from Herman
Melville, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Anthony Trollope, Thomas
Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Vernon Lee, Sarah H. Bradford,
Rabindranath Tagore, D. H. Lawrence, Isabella Bird, Katherine
Mansfield, Rachel Carson, Helen Garner, Jean-Paul Clébert, Colin
Thubron, William Boyd, and many more, Globetrotting takes us across
the streets of London, Rome, Melbourne, Cairo, Kiev and Kabu;
through the frozen wastes of Antarctica; along the pilgrim paths of
Japan; into the jungles of Ghana; and around the Great Wall of
China.
General
Imprint: |
Notting Hill Editions
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2024 |
Editors: |
Duncan Minshull
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Introduction by: |
Duncan Minshull
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Dimensions: |
191 x 121 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
168 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-912559-45-9 |
Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-912559-45-5 |
Barcode: |
9781912559459 |
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