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Description
Walking has appealed to all sorts of people throughout its long recorded history, and this volume delves into a rich variety of sources about walking from the 12th to the 20th century, including diaries, letters, memoirs, poems, fiction, government reports and newspapers.
Ann Holt grew up in the fen country of East Anglia. The first walk she remembers, aged about three, was with her grandmother, who carried a small bag which they filled with sticks for kindling as they walked. As a mature student at the University of Hull she got a degree in sociology and found a community of ramblers, learned that walking required skills and came with its own history. There were books, stories, organisations, heroes, epic struggles, victories and defeats. Gradually, walking became more than a recreation, an endlessly fascinating topic to be researched and thought about. As a result she has done a variety of free-lance projects on walking and the outdoors, edited three books and contributed articles to magazines and journals. This is the book she always intended to write, finally achieved with the help of the Covid lockdown.
Ann Holt grew up in the fen country of East Anglia. The first walk she remembers, aged about three, was with her grandmother, who carried a small bag which they filled with sticks for kindling as they walked. As a mature student at the University of Hull she got a degree in sociology and found a community of ramblers, learned that walking required skills and came with its own history. There were books, stories, organisations, heroes, epic struggles, victories and defeats. Gradually, walking became more than a recreation, an endlessly fascinating topic to be researched and thought about. As a result she has done a variety of free-lance projects on walking and the outdoors, edited three books and contributed articles to magazines and journals. This is the book she always intended to write, finally achieved with the help of the Covid lockdown.