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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 Ive always hated walking Harland Miller offers as his precis while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider the rituals of pilgrimage and protest march It isnt 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 Agns Poirier Josephine Rowe Sinead Gleeson Pico Iyer Patrick Gale and Jessica J Lee
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