Walking

Walking is a means of travel by foot. People walk as a means of transportation, as a leisure activity, as a way of communing with nature, or as a pilgrimage. Walkability of city areas is a focus of urban planning.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
The Road to Grace (The Walk, #3)
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Ask Me
On Trails: An Exploration
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir
Walking the Nile
The Wander Society
Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Walking The Himalayas
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
A Philosophy of Walking
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism
A Time of Gifts
Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
Walking
Between the Woods and the Water
The Rings of Saturn
The Long Walk
A Walk Across America
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonThe Girl She Used to Be by David CristofanoTake Me There by Carolee DeanSecond to No One by Natalie PalmerLeaving Unknown by Kerry Reichs
Up a Road Slowly
16 books — 8 voters
The Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWatership Down by Richard AdamsA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonRabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
Long Journey on Foot
148 books — 84 voters

It's Not About the Bike by Lance ArmstrongJourney Through Britain by John HillabyBlack Sunrise by Christina EngelaWalk Across America by Peter JenkinsA Slow Walk Across Spain by Karen Manwaring
Walking and Running
19 books — 3 voters
Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreightAffinity by Sarah WatersAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Girl Without a Name by Sandra  BlockThe House Between Tides by Sarah Maine
Girls Walking Away
68 books — 3 voters

The Italian Camino by Maggie RamsayThe Long Walk by Robert MuirheadLike a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim by Harry BucknallVia Francigena by Elinor LeBaronAn Accidental Jubilee by Alice Warrender
Via Francigena
9 books — 1 voter
Nordic Walking A Total Body Experience by Tim \"T-Bone\" AremStride and Glide by Paddy Field
Walking for Health
2 books — 2 voters

Bill Bryson
“ Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret. Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is j ...more ”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Jane Austen
“ Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. ”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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