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
- Chapter 1
Introduction
21:27 - Chapter 2
Walking an Antidote to City Poison; On Going a Journey
28:59 - Chapter 3
The Bishop of Salisbury’s Horse; A Strolling Pedlar; A Stout Pedestrian; Lake Scenery
22:27 - Chapter 4
Walking, and the Wild, Part 1
25:06 - Chapter 5
Walking, and the Wild, Part 2
23:33 - Chapter 6
Walking, and the Wild, Part 3
23:52 - Chapter 7
A Young Tramp
10:35 - Chapter 8
De Quincey leads the Simple Life
07:06 - Chapter 9
A Resolution
18:52 - Chapter 10
The Snowdon Ranger
17:00 - Chapter 11
Song of the Open Road
19:31 - Chapter 12
Walking Tours; Sylvanus Urban discovers a Good Brew
23:35 - Chapter 13
Minchmoor
22:59 - Chapter 14
In Praise of Walking, Part 1
21:18 - Chapter 15
In Praise of Walking, Part 2
23:36 - Chapter 16
The Exhilarations of the Road
35:39