Publisher's Synopsis
"Duncan Minshull’s slender gem-filled volume is a welcome reminder to look up; to gaze into the faces of passers-by, to turn my view to the tops of buildings I’ve walked past hundreds of times, but never actually looked at." - Reader's Digest
Following on from the huge success of Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking and Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, Duncan Minshull brings together over fifty walker-writers who have travelled the world’s seven continents.
With contributions from Edith Wharton, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Rabindranath Tagore, D. H. Lawrence, Isabella Bird, Katherine Mansfield, Rachel Carson, Jean-Paul Clébert, Colin Thubron, William Boyd and many more, Globetrotting takes us across the streets of London, Rome, Melbourne, Cairo, Kyiv and Kabul; through the frozen wastes of Antarctica; along the pilgrim paths of Japan; into the jungles of Ghana; around the Great Wall of China.
Some quotes from Globetrotting to inspire your next walk, ramble, jog or roam...
‘I have to report that one fine morning the desire to take a walk came over me.’ - Robert Walser
'What a vibrant rebirth transforms this city - the streets, sidewalks, houses, lampposts, shady nooks, trees. It stretches & spreads out before me, the stroller from elsewhere.' - Jean Paul Clébert
'Then comes Sunday morning. The peculiar looseness of its light. And even if you keep mum, the better half says - "Let’s go… somewhere!"' - D.H. Lawrence
'I'd never been to Kyiv before. Guidebook and map in my pocket, notebook and shawl in my bag, I decide just to follow my nose. See what happens and where I end up.' - Michéle Roberts
'Walking is the best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. An Indian goes on foot as far in a day as a white does on his horse; and he will tire the best horses.' - Thomas Jefferson
