Walking Home
eBook - ePub

Walking Home

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Walking Home

About this book

In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain, across lonely fells and into the howling wind, he would be walking home, towards theYorkshire village where he was born.

Travelling as a 'modern troubadour' without a penny in his pocket, he stopped along the way to give poetry readings in village halls, churches, pubs and living rooms. His audiences varied from the passionate to the indifferent, and his readings were accompanied by the clacking of pool balls, the drumming of rain and the bleating of sheep.

WALKING HOME describes this extraordinary, yet ordinary, journey. It's a story about Britain's remote and overlooked interior - the wildness of its landscape and the generosity of the locals who sustained him on his journey. It's about facing emotional and physical challenges, and sometimes overcoming them. It's nature writing, but with people at its heart. Contemplative, moving and droll, it is a unique narrative from one of our most beloved writers.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780571284023
Edition
0
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Maps
  5. A Preamble
  6. Home to Abbotsford
  7. Kirk Yetholm to Uswayford
  8. Uswayford to Byrness
  9. Byrness to Bellingham
  10. Bellingham to Once Brewed
  11. Once Brewed to Greenhead
  12. Greenhead to Knarsdale
  13. Knarsdale to Garrigill
  14. Garrigill to Dufton
  15. Dufton to Langdon Beck
  16. Langdon Beck to Baldersdale
  17. Baldersdale to Keld
  18. Keld to Hawes
  19. Hawes to Horton-in-Ribblesdale
  20. Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Malham
  21. Malham to Ickornshaw
  22. Ickornshaw to Hebden Bridge
  23. Hebden Bridge to Marsden
  24. Marsden to Crowden
  25. Crowden to Edale
  26. Rambling On
  27. Credit Where Credit Is Due
  28. About the Author
  29. By the Same Author
  30. Copyright