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WHERE MY FEET FALL EB
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction – Duncan Minshull
- 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 Coonoor) – 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 – Irenosen Okojie
- Lost – Joanna Kavenna
- Portals – Agnés 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
- Biographies
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- About the Publisher