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Where my feet fall : going for a walk in twenty stories / edited by Duncan Minshull.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : William Collins, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 230 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780008414115
  • 0008414114
  • 0008549338
  • 9780008549336
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Walking, a departure / Richard Ford -- Following others / Tim Parks -- We going Santiago / Ingrid Persaud -- Skiddaw / A.L. Kennedy -- Around Deer's Slope / Pico Iyer -- Even Greater Kailash and (Parts of Conoor) / Keshava Guha -- A record (rain) / Jessica J. Lee -- A curvy road is better than a straight one / Sally Bayley -- Hard shoulder / Harland Miller -- Grain... again / Will Self -- Routes / Irenoson Okojie -- Lost / Joanna Kavenna -- Portals / Agnès Poirier -- 'Faraway places near here' / Sinéad Gleeson -- Lucky horseshoe / Kathleen Rooney -- Depths of field / Josephine Rowe -- Out of my cage / Kamila Shamsie -- Shore / Cynan Jones -- Lot's wife, and some reflections on walking at night / Nicholas Shakespeare -- The returns home / Patrick Gale.
Summary: "Walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this collection, twenty writers set out on new adventures, or in the company of old memories. These are stories to dip into from all walks of life. Together, they capture the magic and opportunity that can arrive when you put one foot in front of the other. This collection features Tim Parks, Kamila Shamsie, Will Self, Nicholas Shakespeare, Irenosen Okojie, Ingrid Persaud, Al Kennedy, Cynan Jones, Sally Bayley, Joanna Kavenna, and more"--Publisher's description.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 796.5109 W567 Available 33111010935258
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you?

It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking.

In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. 'I've always hated walking,' Harland Miller offers as his precis, while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider the rituals of pilgrimage and protest march. 'It isn't a walking city,' Kamila Shamsie writes of Karachi, though she strides across it regardless. On the shores of Foulness Island, Will Self hopes to avoid landmines. In a forest north of Berlin, Jessica J. Lee gets soaked, then lost. And pacing around Delhi, Keshava Guha is interrupted by a husky. 'During the pandemic of 2020,' he writes, looking back. 'He was the only thing I hugged.'

These are stories to dip into, from all walks of life. Together they capture the magic and opportunity that can arrive when you put one foot in front of the other.

This collection features Tim Parks, Kamila Shamsie, Will Self, Nicholas Shakespeare, Irenosen Okojie, Ingrid Persaud, AL Kennedy, Cynan Jones, Sally Bayley, Joanna Kavenna, Kathleen Rooney, Richard Ford, Harland Miller, Keshava Guha, Agnès Poirier, Josephine Rowe, Sinead Gleeson, Pico Iyer, Patrick Gale and Jessica J. Lee.

Walking, a departure / Richard Ford -- Following others / Tim Parks -- We going Santiago / Ingrid Persaud -- Skiddaw / A.L. Kennedy -- Around Deer's Slope / Pico Iyer -- Even Greater Kailash and (Parts of Conoor) / Keshava Guha -- A record (rain) / Jessica J. Lee -- A curvy road is better than a straight one / Sally Bayley -- Hard shoulder / Harland Miller -- Grain... again / Will Self -- Routes / Irenoson Okojie -- Lost / Joanna Kavenna -- Portals / Agnès Poirier -- 'Faraway places near here' / Sinéad Gleeson -- Lucky horseshoe / Kathleen Rooney -- Depths of field / Josephine Rowe -- Out of my cage / Kamila Shamsie -- Shore / Cynan Jones -- Lot's wife, and some reflections on walking at night / Nicholas Shakespeare -- The returns home / Patrick Gale.

"Walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this collection, twenty writers set out on new adventures, or in the company of old memories. These are stories to dip into from all walks of life. Together, they capture the magic and opportunity that can arrive when you put one foot in front of the other. This collection features Tim Parks, Kamila Shamsie, Will Self, Nicholas Shakespeare, Irenosen Okojie, Ingrid Persaud, Al Kennedy, Cynan Jones, Sally Bayley, Joanna Kavenna, and more"--Publisher's description.

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