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Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers

Public domain audiobook

Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers

by Hilaire Belloc

English· 05:45:35· 16 chapters
This 1911 anthology is a collection of musings on the pleasures, challenges, and experience of walking. It features some famous authors (Thoreau, Dickens, Whitman, etc.) and others who are less well known. The works include essays, excerpts from fictional works, and first-person accounts of adventures had while walking. The collection was compiled by Hilaire Belloc, a Franco-English writer, many of whose books have been recorded for Librivox. - Summary by Verla Viera

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Introduction

    21:27
  2. Chapter 2

    Walking an Antidote to City Poison; On Going a Journey

    28:59
  3. Chapter 3

    The Bishop of Salisbury’s Horse; A Strolling Pedlar; A Stout Pedestrian; Lake Scenery

    22:27
  4. Chapter 4

    Walking, and the Wild, Part 1

    25:06
  5. Chapter 5

    Walking, and the Wild, Part 2

    23:33
  6. Chapter 6

    Walking, and the Wild, Part 3

    23:52
  7. Chapter 7

    A Young Tramp

    10:35
  8. Chapter 8

    De Quincey leads the Simple Life

    07:06
  9. Chapter 9

    A Resolution

    18:52
  10. Chapter 10

    The Snowdon Ranger

    17:00
  11. Chapter 11

    Song of the Open Road

    19:31
  12. Chapter 12

    Walking Tours; Sylvanus Urban discovers a Good Brew

    23:35
  13. Chapter 13

    Minchmoor

    22:59
  14. Chapter 14

    In Praise of Walking, Part 1

    21:18
  15. Chapter 15

    In Praise of Walking, Part 2

    23:36
  16. Chapter 16

    The Exhilarations of the Road

    35:39