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— The Great Outdoors
The Walker's Anthology
Excerpt:
Contents
Contents | Introduction | Sample 1: Setting Out | Sample 2: Through Countryside | Sample 3: Walking at Night | Sample 4: On Hills and Mountains
INTRODUCTION
SETTING OUT
Setting out, 1879 ~ Robert Louis Stevenson 9
A Walk in the Woods, 1998 ~ Bill Bryson 10
Mole sets out, 1908 ~ Kenneth Grahame 11
Why are you doing this?, 2010 ~ Colin Thubron 12
Once upon a time, 1920 ~ Flora Thompson 13
Starting from Bradford, 1933 ~ J.B. Priestley 14
Through the forest of Borneo, 1856 ~ Alfred Russel Wallace 15
The old roads of England, 1926 ~ Anthony Collett 16
Robinson Crusoe’s island, 1719 ~ Daniel Defoe 17
Walking and its pleasures and ideas, 1850 ~ H.D. Thoreau 18
Walking tours, 1876 ~ Robert Louis Stevenson 19
Up Cameroon Mountain, 1895 ~ Mary Kingsley 20
THROUGH COUNTRYSIDE
Escape!, 1899 ~ Osbert Sitwell 21
Glories of the forest, 1863 ~ Henry Walter Bates 22
Through a Chinese landscape, 1850 ~ Robert Fortune 23
Ullswater in Autumn, October ,1769 ~ Thomas Gray 24
Near home, 1820 ~ John Clare 25
In the Rocky Mountains, 1891 ~ Blackwood’s Magazine 25
Stormy weather near Landovery, 1862 ~ George Borrow 26
Daffodils, 1807 ~ William Wordsworth 27
At Athos, 1794 ~ J.B.S. Morritt 27
Spring beauty all around, 1930 ~ Winifred Fortescue 28
A Walk-about in Australia, 1925 ~ Philippa Bridges 29
Walking in the desert, 1848 ~ Harriet Martineau 30
Oliver walks to London, 1838 ~ Charles Dickens 31
A hopeful errand, 1891 ~ Thomas Hardy 33
The flowers of Norfolk, 1939 ~ Lilias Rider Haggard 34
Round Dubrovka, 1937 ~ J.B. Priestley 35
To a secret and lovely place, 1938 ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 36
Into pre-history, 1850 ~ Bayard Taylor 37
Green-tinted in the Black Forest, 1880 ~ Mark Twain 38
In the West African forest, 1893 ~ Mary Kingsley 39
To the farm, 1887 ~ Flora Thompson 39
The flowers of the pine forest in the Jura, 1849 ~ John Ruskin 40
The heaths and scents of Suffolk, 1950 ~ William Addison 41
In Cameroun, 1894 ~ Mary Kingsley 42
On Ulinish, 1785 ~ James Boswell 43
A windy day in Easedale, 1801 ~ Dorothy Wordsworth 44
Walking with the Brontës, 1985 ~ Christopher Somerville 45
In the forests with the Assiniboine, 1864 ~ Viscount Milton & Dr Cheadle 46
Walking with history, 1910 ~ E.L. Butcher 47
Asthall and ‘Black Stockings’, 1906 ~ F.G. Brabant 48
The Duddon Valley, 1910 ~ Karl Baedeker 48
From the Nile in Sudan, 1910 ~ E.S. Stevens 49
To the back pasture, 1898 ~ Rudyard Kipling 50
Visiting Mr Darcy, 1813 ~ Jane Austen 51
PROCESSIONS AND MARCHES
Marching past the Sultan, c. 1650 ~ Evliya Çelibi 53
The procession at Engelberg, 1825 ~ Dorothy Wordsworth 54
Accompanying the Rajah, 1870 ~ The Ranee Margaret of Sarawak 55
In Baden-Baden, 1880 ~ Mark Twain 56
Preparing for the Coronation Procession, 1952 ~ ‘Amelia’ 57
The Lord Mayor’s Show, 1662 ~ William Schellinks 58
The Lord Mayor’s Show, 1930 ~ Chiang Yee 59
Beating the Bounds, 1939 ~ H.V. Morton 59
Wonderland, 1865 ~ Lewis Carroll 60
Procession in Marseilles, 1850 ~ W.H. Bartlett 61
Ants marching in the Amazon forest, 1863 ~ Henry Walter Bates 63
PILGRIMAGES AND WALKING FOR WORK
First days in Jerusalem, 1855 ~ Adam Steinmetz Kennard 64
Pilgrims met en route, 1794 ~ J.B.S. Morritt 65
Towards Santiago, 1843 & 2007 ~ Guy Arnold & George Borrow 66
A spectral cavalcade, 1864 ~ Viscount Milton & Dr Cheadle 67
Through New Zealand, 1773 ~ Captain James Cook 68
A pilgrimage in Moscow, 1938 ~ Peter Francis 69
Marching with banners, 1860 ~ Bayard Taylor 70
Tread mills, 1827 ~ The Table Book 71
Through Spanish fields, 1937 ~ George Orwell 71
WALKING IN WINTER
South up the Rhine – to the Danube, 1970 ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor 73
January 7th, 1773 ~ Gilbert White 74
Marching through the Antarctic, 1914 ~ Ernest Shackleton 75
Winter walk on Port Meadow, 1942 ~ Chiang Yee 75
Animals in the snow, 1888 ~ C.J. Cornish 77
Erzurum in the Armenian winter, 1854 ~ Robert Curzon 78
Bad weather in May, 1827 ~ Dorothy Wordsworth 78
The end of the year, 1939 ~ Lilias Rider Haggard 79
ON HILLS AND MOUNTAINS
Meeting Thesiger in Afghanistan, 1958 ~ Eric Newby 80
Starting out on an Alpine day, 1880 ~ Mark Twain 82
Climbing at Cortina, 1872 ~ Amelia Edwards 83
Towards the Chinese temple, 1932 ~ Ann Bridge 83
The Stones of Palestine, 2000 ~ Raja Shehadeh 84
In a churchyard, 1825 ~ Dorothy Wordsworth 85
At Dendor on the Nile, 1849 ~ Harriet Martineau 86
View from Fort William, 1893 ~ Mary Kingsley 87
Up the valleys, 1845 ~ Bayard Taylor 88
To the top of the hill, Bath, 1942 ~ Lilias Rider Haggard 89
A steep descent, 1872 ~ Amelia Edwards 90
The old corpse road, 1984 ~ Alfred Wainwright 91
We are indeed in Scotland, 1850 ~ Dorothy Wordsworth 91
Over the moors and up the hills, 1933 ~ Constance Sitwell 93
WALKING IN PARKS AND GARDENS
Palermo, 1787 ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 94
The Garden of Damascus, 1836 ~ A.W. Kinglake 95
Return to England, 1933 ~ Constance Sitwell 96
Met in the rose gardens of Feddamean, 1912 ~ Lady Evelyn Cobbold 96
A joyous spring day in Richmond Park, 1893 ~ C.J. Cornish 97
Woodstock, 1905 ~ F.G. Brabant 99
Through the Cedars of Lebanon, 1847 ~ Harriet Martineau 100
Colour in the Duke of Lante’s garden, 1909 ~ Sir George Sitwell 101
Walking with royalty, May, 1662 ~ William Schellinks 102
Like walking in a garden, 1879 ~ Isabella Bird 102
The garden at Versailles, 1766 ~ Tobias Smollett 103
A garden in Ireland, 1950 ~ Annabel Davis-Goff 104
Through marble passages, 1851 ~ Florence Nightingale 105
Measured for walking, 1870 ~ Amelia Edwards 106
The Alameda, and Santiago di Compostela, 2007 ~ Guy Arnold 107
Near Jaffa, 1884 ~ Annie C. MacLeod 107
The garden at Ashridge, 1933 ~ Constance Sitwell 108
Lines written in Richmond Park, c. 1740 ~ James Thomson 109
WALKING BY WATER
By the Thames, April, 1662 ~ William Schellinks 110
Walking and watching, March 9, 1772 ~ Gilbert White 111
Undress, 1860 ~ Bayard Taylor 111
Through Brazil, 1932 ~ Peter Fleming 113
Early morning near Baalbec in Syria, 1856 ~ Reverend W.M. Thomson 113
The Llangollen canal, 1985 ~ Roger W. Squires & Gareth Lovett Jones 114
Bibury, 1904 ~ C.R. Branch 115
Rambling ashore, 1867 ~ Howard Hopley 116
By the Thames, 1938 ~ Chiang Yee 116
A shepherd and his flock, 1856 ~ Reverend W.M. Thomson 117
In Italy, 1949 ~ Osbert Sitwell 118
Around Port Meadow, 2008 ~ Oxford Pedestrians Association 120
The uplands of Hell, 1900 ~ Rudyard Kipling 121
Through Swaledale, 1940 ~ Ward, Lock & Company, Ltd 121
Beside the Nile, 1856 ~ William C. Prime 122
Mountains and sea, 2007 ~ Guy Arnold 124
By the sea shore, 1933 ~ H.V. Morton 125
Along the canal, 1944 ~ Chiang Yee 125
By sea and land, 1837 ~ Lady Jane Franklin 126
Settle towards Stackhouse, 1923 ~ Frederic Riley 127
WALKING IN TOWNS AND CITIES
The bazaars of Cairo, 1897 ~ Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball 129
Third Girl, 1966 ~ Agatha Christie 130
In Moscow, 1937 ~ J.B. Priestley 131
To the sacred place – Eyoub, 1921 ~ Pierre Loti 132
Walking in Bath, 1890 ~ Karl Baedeker 134
By the Red Sea, 1909 ~ Arthur E.P. Weigall 134
Along Watling Street, 1971 ~ J.H.B. Peel 135
The sounds and smells of the streets of Cairo, 1920 ~ Rudyard Kipling 136
Some problems, 2004 ~ Charlie Connelly 137
WALKING AT NIGHT
The end of the day, 1908 ~ Kenneth Grahame 138
Lost, 1880 ~ Mark Twain 139
Moonlight, 1899 ~ Elizabeth von Arnim 139
Walking with the moon, 1938 ~ Chiang Yee 141
Into an underground wilderness, 1932 ~ H.V. Morton 142
Night and moonlight, 1863 ~ H.D. Thoreau 143
The lamplighter, 1939 ~ H.V. Morton 144
How the night passed, 1902 ~ Hilaire Belloc 144
The desert at night, 1840 ~ W.H. Bartlett 145
In the vicinity of Athens, 1858 ~ Mark Twain 146
On the road to Germany, 1845 ~ Bayard Taylor 147
By moonlight, 1908 ~ Kenneth Grahame 148
Through Rotterdam before dawn, 1950 ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor 149
The walls of Istanbul, 1897 ~ Richard Davey 150
The Walkers 151
Bibliography 156
Index 160
The Walker's Anthology
Excerpts:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Sample 1: Setting Out
- Sample 2: Through Countryside
- Sample 3: Walking at Night
- Sample 4: On Hills and Mountains
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