The best writing on going on foot, gathered in 1911: Hazlitt on going a journey alone, Thoreau on walking and the wild, Wordsworth on the Lakes, Borrow on the Snowdon ranger, De Quincey, Dickens, Stevenson and Whitman — with Belloc’s introduction on why the pace of walking is the pace at which a country can be understood.
The great essays on walking, in one volume. Download the free EPUB.