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The Walker's Anthology - Further Tales
Excerpt:
Contents
Contents | Introduction | Sample 1: Encounter with a bear, 2007 | Sample 2: The Road Not Taken, 1915 | Sample 3: Preparations for a long walk, 1933 | Sample 4: Travels in West Africa, 1894
INTRODUCTION
GREAT BRITAIN
Seven Sisters, 2015 ~ Bill Bryson 7
Walking, 1660 ~ Thomas Traherne 9
Walking at Grasmere, 1800 ~ Dorothy Wordsworth 11
On Elizabeth Bennet, 1813 ~ Jane Austen 12
Night Walk through London, 1860 ~ Charles Dickens 13
Inappropriate conversations with Mr Mybug, 1932 ~ S. Gibbons 18
The Naturalist’s Summer-Evening Walk, 1769 ~ Gilbert White 19
Preparations for a long walk, 1933 ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor 21
Solvitur Ambulando, 1934 ~ Arthur Stanley 23
Market Day, 1836 ~ John Clare 24
The Advanced Backpacker, 2000 ~ Chris Townsend 24
Walkers Not Welcome, 1782 ~ Karl Moritz 25
The Road Not Taken, 1915 ~ Robert Frost 29
The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage, 1603 ~ Sir Walter Raleigh 29
Walking for Mr Darcy, 1813 ~ Jane Austen 31
Escape from the Asylum, 1841 ~ John Clare 32
The Winter’s Spring, 1841 ~ John Clare 36
The Go-Between, 1900 ~ L.P. Hartley 37
Climbing Ben Lomond, 1846 ~ Bayard Taylor 39
Setting Out, 1934 ~ Laurie Lee 41
The Sign-Post, 1916 ~ Edward Thomas 43
The Proposal, 1867 ~ Anthony Trollope 44
The Rolling English Road, 1913 ~ G.K. Chesterton 47
The Roots of Routes and Learning, 2012 ~ Robert Macfarlane 48
The Way, 1969 ~ Bruce Chatwin 48
Club-walking, 1891 ~ Thomas Hardy 49
The Perfect Walk, 1821 ~ William Hazlitt 52
The Table and the Chair, 1871 ~ Edward Lear 53
The Engagement, 1813 ~ Jane Austen 55
After your Walk, 1891 ~ Robert Louis Stevenson 56
CONTINENTAL EUROPE
Walking best thoughts into existence, 1847 ~ Søren Kierkegaard 59
Walking in the Rain, 1846 ~ Bayard Taylor 60
First Night Out, 1902 ~ Hilaire Belloc 61
Excelsior, 1841 ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 66
Athens, 1829 ~ Thomas Alcock 68
My body must be exercised to make my judgement active, 1765 ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau 70
Mountain-climbing in Switzerland, 1880 ~ Mark Twain 73
The Simplon Pass, 1790 ~ William Wordsworth 77
The Panic that Haunts High Places, 1902 ~ Hilaire Belloc 78
ASIA
Crossing a Human Causeway, 1833 ~ Rev W.M. Thomson 81
A Jolly Evening in a Koutan, 1905 ~ Stephen Graham 82
Lost in Armenia, 1828 ~ Thomas Alcock 86
Easter in Jerusalem, 1833 ~ Rev W.M. Thomson 88
A Passage to India, 1924 ~ E.M. Forster 91
The Salt March, 1930 ~ Mahatma Gandhi 94
Himalayan Vistas, 1853 ~ Bayard Taylor 97
Conquering Everest, 1953 ~ Edmund Hillary 100
An Opium Trip, 1853 ~ Bayard Taylor 102
Among the Tibetans, 1889 ~ Isabella Bird 106
Encounter with a Bear, 2007 ~ Dervla Murphy 110
NORTH AMERICA
The Art of Walking, 1851 ~ Henry David Thoreau 112
Climbing in the Rockies, 1873 ~ Isabella Bird 115
Up-hill, 1861 ~ Christina Rossetti 122
Sunset, 1862 ~ Henry David Thoreau 123
SOUTH AMERICA
First impressions of Brazil, 1848 ~ Henry Walter Bates 125
The Ritual of My Legs, 1931 ~ Pablo Neruda 129
Mountain-sickness on Chimborazo, 1880 ~ Edward Whymper 130
The Diet of an Amazonian Entomologist, 1848 ~ Henry Walter Bates 133
AFRICA
Searching for Crayfish, 1905 ~ Arthur E.P. Weigall 13
Travels in West Africa, 1894 ~ Mary Kingsley 138
A Trek to Mt Elgon, 1925 ~ Carl Jung 141
Victoria Falls, 1874 ~ Frank Oates 144
Climbing Mt Cameroon, 1895 ~ Mary Kingsley 148
Visiting the Cango Caves, 1877 ~ Anthony Trollope 150
AUSTRALASIA
The Songlines ~ Bruce Chatwin 151
The Duck and the Kangaroo, 1871 ~ Edward Lear 155
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
The Walker's Anthology - Further Tales
Excerpts:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Sample 1: Encounter with a bear, 2007
- Sample 2: The Road Not Taken, 1915
- Sample 3: Preparations for a long walk, 1933
- Sample 4: Travels in West Africa, 1894
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