The Most Beautiful Walk in the World

The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
Author: John Baxter
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0062092057

Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years. In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literary walking tours" through the city. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the history of Paris through a brilliant cast of characters: the favorite cafés of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picasso's underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century flâneurs; the secluded "Little Luxembourg" gardens beloved by Gertrude Stein; the alleys where revolutionaries plotted; and finally Baxter's own favorite walk near his home in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

A Walk in the Woods

A Walk in the Woods
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0385674546

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.

Walk this World

Walk this World
Author: Jenny Broom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Culture
ISBN: 9780763668952

A composite of global cultures, "Walk this World" celebrates the everyday similarities and differences that exist between cultures around the world. Readers can travel to a new country by opening the many flaps on every spread. Full color.

Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Ben Shattuck
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1953534090

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A New England Indie Bestselller A New York Times Best Book of Summer, a Wall Street Journal and Town & Country Best Book of Spring “A gorgeous reminder that walking is the most radical form of locomotion nowadays.” —Nick Offerman “I think Thoreau would have liked this book, and that’s a high recommendation.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to Provincetown’s fingertip. This is the first of six journeys taken by Shattuck, each one inspired by a walk once taken by Henry David Thoreau. After the Cape, Shattuck goes up Mount Katahdin and Mount Wachusett, down the coastline of his hometown, and then through the Allagash. Along the way, Shattuck encounters unexpected characters, landscapes, and stories, seeing for himself the restorative effects that walking can have on a dampened spirit. Over years of following Thoreau, Shattuck finds himself uncovering new insights about family, love, friendship, and fatherhood, and understanding more deeply the lessons walking can offer through life’s changing seasons. Intimate, entertaining, and beautifully crafted, Six Walks is a resounding tribute to the ways walking in nature can inspire us all.

A Walk in London

A Walk in London
Author: Salvatore Rubbino
Publisher: Walker
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: London (England)
ISBN: 9781406337792

London - the perfect place for a girl and her mother to spend the day! Follow them as they alight the classic red bus and begin a whirlwind tour of some of London's most iconic land marks.

Walk in Their Shoes

Walk in Their Shoes
Author: Jim Ziolkowski
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451683553

Includes Simon & Schuster reading group guide.

Walking San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive

Walking San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive
Author: Kristine Poggioli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781610352796

San Francisco's famous citywide scenic driving route has been reinvented for a new generation as a green, healthy walking adventure. This turn-by-turn guide takes visitors and natives alike on 17 different up-close walking tours, passing by and through the city's major sights, fascinating neighborhoods, and breathtaking vistas.

Places in the World a Woman Could Walk

Places in the World a Woman Could Walk
Author: Janet Kauffman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-12
Genre: Country life
ISBN: 9781555972332

""Places in the World a Woman Could Walk" is deeply felt and bitingly precise. The author's dual professions of farmer and poet give the stories two gifts: an intimate, gritty sense of life on the land and a skill with language that amounts to alchemy."--Anne Tyler The women in Janet Kauffman's spirited stories are unafraid to look closely at their flawed lives. Burdened by the struggles of a rural existence, they are determined to embrace the simplest pleasures with a true heart. Whether slaughtering a favorite cow or leaving a violent husband, these characters make tough choices and live with the consequences. "A distinctive voice both quirky and down-to-earth, totally unsentimental and capable of rendering reality's baffling undertones."--"Library Journal"

Walking

Walking
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 1914
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

The World's Best National Parks in 500 Walks

The World's Best National Parks in 500 Walks
Author: Mary Caperton Morton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1645176282

Tour the world's national parks via five hundred walks and hikes through preserved natural beauty.