Skyhorse Publishing, 2019. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1510705661 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1510705685 (ebook). Rick Antonson has traveled to parts of the world that are not simply exotic but sometimes damned near inaccessible. He has climbed to the summit of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, traveling beyond to Iraq and Iran and Armenia. He has undertaken an improbable overland journey to...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017 — 135 p. — ISBN: 978-1539928430. Adventure addict Keith Foskett adores travel and the outdoors. A veteran of El Camino de Santiago in Spain, the Pacific Crest, Appalachian Trail and more, he follows a different lifestyle. Adventure and chasing dreams come first, convention and acceptance are second. In this book he shares a...
Routledge, 2017. — 438 p. — ISBN: 978-1138195349, 1138195340. Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject. Thoreau’s 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at Grasmere in the...
Routledge, 2017. — 438 p. — ISBN: 978-1138195349, 1138195340. Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject. Thoreau’s 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at Grasmere in the...
Routledge, 2017. — 438 p. — ISBN: 978-1138195349, 1138195340. Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject. Thoreau’s 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at Grasmere in the...
Routledge, 2017. — 438 p. — ISBN: 978-1138195349, 1138195340. Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject. Thoreau’s 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at Grasmere in the...
Routledge, 2017. — 438 p. — ISBN: 978-1138195349, 1138195340. Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject. Thoreau’s 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at Grasmere in the...
DK Eyewitness Travel, 2022. — 454 p. — ISBN: 9780241594391. A book about hiking: how to prepare for it and how to enjoy it. Walking routes on all inhabited continents are also described in detail. It's hard to beat the satisfaction of traveling on foot - settling into a steady rhythm, surrounded by incredible scenery, with the freedom to stop wherever takes your fancy. This...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1510713505, ISBN: 978-1510713529 (ebook). Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world. After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says “don’t,” incorporating...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1493026425. To walk is to discover, from those first halting steps as a child to walking the world’s greatest long-distance trails. Experience breathtaking coastlines, mountain ranges, historic landscapes, wilderness areas, religious pilgrimages, great cities, and iconic rivers. Walk to learn more about our beautiful and curious...
Allen & Unwin, 2016 — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1760290740, eISBN 978-1925268645. One woman 10,000 miles on foot 6 countries 8 pairs of hiking boots 3,000 cups of tea 1,000 days and nights "The only way to survive three years of walking was to embrace the moment of now.”―from Wild by Nature Not since Cheryl Strayed gifted us with her adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail in her memoir,...
Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2010 — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1584798538. Fifty Places to Hike Before You Die is the latest offering in the bestselling Fifty Places series. Chris Santella, along with top expedition leaders, explores the world’s greatest walking adventures. Some, such as the Lunana Snowman Trek in Bhutan and the Kangshung Valley Trek in Tibet, are grueling multiweek...
2nd Edition. — National Geographic, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1426217845. Whether you're a first-time backpacker, an occasional weekend warrior, or a seasoned long-distance trekker, this guide is a must for any backpacking, hiking, or camping trip. Supreme long-distance hiker Andrew Skurka — accomplished adventure athlete, speaker, guide, and writer — shares his knowledge in...
Icon Books Ltd., 2016 — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1785780639. The perfect accompaniment to practical guidebooks, Stone relates how slings and carabiners kept him from falling headlong off the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and reports on the progress of the continental-wide monster, the Trans Canada Trail, gaps in which are still being filled by countless grass-roots communities. With walks...
BBC Books, 2008. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0563539087. Photographers and writers Steve Watkins and Clare Jones draw on their years of international travel experience in selecting thirty of the world's most inspiring, spectacular and beautiful walks, each of which can be done within the space of a two-week break. Their choices include a wide range of locations, from urban walking...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0802127495, ISBN: 978-0802165640. Levison Wood’s famous walking expeditions have taken him from the length of the Nile River to the peaks of the Himalayas, and in Walking the Americas, Wood chronicles his latest exhilarating adventure: an 1,800-mile trek across the spine of the Americas, through eight countries, from Mexico to...
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