While Wandering by Duncan Minshull
`A book to start your heart and feet beating for the road’ The Times With its stories of strolling, poems about pavement-pounding and wonderings on wandering, this is the indispensable collection for the flâneur and the rambler – and everyone in between. Take a turn with Jane Austen, stride side by side with Colm Tóibín, let restless William Wordsworth lead you through brook and road before a detour with Stella Gibbons to the park.Whether mountaineering with Mark Twain or visiting Oxford Street with Julian Barnes – be sure to take this anthology with you on your ambulations. With a new foreword by Robert Macfarlane. Previously published with the title The Vintage Book of Walking
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Duncan Minshull's While Wandering: A Walking Companion, is a classic: an anthology of stories, poems and pieces by writers as diverse as Jane Austen and Colm Toibin, describing every kind of walking and the effects it has * A Little Bird *
The very excellence of this rich anthology makes it self-destructiveOnce you start reading it, you want to throw it down and go walking -- Derwent May * Times Literary Supplement *
Duncan Minshull's While Wandering: A Walking Companion, is a classic: an anthology of stories, poems and pieces by writers as diverse as Jane Austen and Colm Toibin, describing every kind of walking and the effects it has * A Little Bird *
The very excellence of this rich anthology makes it self-destructiveOnce you start reading it, you want to throw it down and go walking -- Derwent May * Times Literary Supplement *
Duncan Minshull is a senior producer at BBC Radio. He is editor of Telling Stories Vols 1-4, Fanfare and The Burning Leg. He has written extensively about walking for newspapers and magazines. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099593362 |
| ISBN 10 | 009959336X |
| Title | While Wandering |
| Author | Duncan Minshull |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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