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 Salt Path
The Wild Silence
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Walking. One Step at a Time
Two Steps Forward
The Electricity of Every Living Thing
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
A Philosophy of Walking
The Salt Path
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism
Walking. One Step at a Time
Walking
A Time of Gifts
The Rings of Saturn
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Between the Woods and the Water
A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy EganThe Italian Camino by Maggie RamsayReturn to Glow  by Chandi WyantStrangers and Pilgrims by Ryan TandlerThe Path You Make by Kym Wilson
Via Francigena
17 books — 6 voters

GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  NelsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonLongstreet Highroad Guide to the Vermont Mountains by Nancy BazilchuckHiking Yosemite National Park by Suzanne SwedoHiking Phoenix by Cosmic Ray
Best Hiking Guides
146 books — 23 voters
Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterThe Map of Lost Memories by Kim FayThe Yard by Alex GrecianThornwood House by Anna RomerThe Brotherhood by Y.A. Erskine
Walking Away
73 books — 10 voters


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Annie Dillard
“ Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet’s roundness arc between your feet. ”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Rebecca Solnit
“ Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go. ...more ”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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