Writers on Walking

Introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull

Favorite quote: “Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finely in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord. Waling allowed us to be in our bodies in the world without being made busy by them. It leaves us free to think without being wholly lost in our thoughts… Moving on foot seems to make it easier to move in time; the mind wanders from plans to recollections to observations.” — Rebecca Solnit

From the publisher: Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk out a rhythm for their lines and the novelists who put their characters on a path. Beneath My Feet rounds up the most memorable walker-writers from the 1300’s to the modern day, from country hikers to urban strollers, from the rationalists to the truly outlandish. All of them analyze our need to put one foot in front of the other.

Follow in the footsteps of Virginia Woolf, George Sand, Rebecca Solnit, Will Self, and dozens more. Keep up with them—and be astonished.”

ABOUT the publisher, Notting Hill Editions; founded by Tom Kremer (1930-2017), champion of innovation and the man responsible for popularising the Rubik's cube.: “After a successful business career in toy invention Tom decided, at the age of eighty, to engage his passion for literature. In a digital world where time is short and books are throwaway, Tom's aim was to revive the art of the essay and to produce exceptionally beautiful books that would be cherished.

Hailed as 'the shape of things to come', the family-run press brings to print the most surprising thinkers of past and present. In an era of information-overload, these collectible pocket-sized books distil ideas that linger in the mind.”

Dimensions: 4.75 x 7.5 in / 160 pages

Hardcover