The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780241143810 (0241143810)
Publish date: June 7th 2012
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Philosophy,
Walking
A book unlike any modern genre but also deeply rooted in the tradition of travellers that use their travel in the exterior world as a way to talk about the interior life.To be taken at a slow walking pace. When you have plenty of time for contemplation. The audio version is read in an agreeable, dee...
The 4 stars are for what this book ought to have been rather than what it was. Chapter 8 ('Gneiss') was irrelevant and somewhat offensive. 'Abroad', while interesting, belonged in a different book. I read it last. The author's voice is at its most authentic and most lacking in artifice in the ch...
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