Sauntering : writers walk Europe / introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minshull, Duncan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walking--Literary collections.

Walking.

Authors--Travel.

Authors.

Travelers' writings, European.

Genre:

Literature.

Travel writing.

Literary collections.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 154 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Mirefott, Burneside, Kendal : Notting Hill Editions, 2021.

Summary:

Sauntering features sixty walker-writers--classic and current--who roam Europe by foot. Twenty-two countries are traversed. We join Henriette d'Angeville, the second woman to climb Mont Blanc; Nellie Bly roaming the trenches of the First World War; Werner Herzog on a personal pilgrimage through Germany; Hans Christian Andersen in quarantine; Joseph Conrad in Cracow; Rebecca Solnit reimagining change on the streets of Prague; and Robert Macfarlane dropping deep into underground Paris" -- Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Europe Unfolds / Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Feeling of Apprehension / John Hillaby

Never Looked Up / Anon

An Enormous Theatre / Robert Walser

Gazing to the West / Petrarch

Mysterious Flowers / Harriet Beecher Stowe

Walking Sticks / Mariana Starke

Steps to the Summit / Henriette D'Angeville

I Never Noticed It Before / Amelia B. Edwards

Mountains! / Franz Kafka

Honny Spot of all Candy / William Lithgow

Dense, Dripping, Febrile / Edith Wharton

Picturesque, Near Poppelsdorf / Ann Radcliffe

Baedeker-ized Nature / Joseph Roth

Dreamwalk / Fridtjof Nansen

Dream Landscape / Joanna Kavenna

Miracle on an Irish Road / Chevalier De Latocnaye

Offering Thanks / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dung / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Candles, Halos, Penitents / Richard Wright

Pilgrim, Outsider / Werner Herzog

The Philosopher Walks / Heinrich Heine

Notes in the Vienna Woods / Ludwig Van Beethoven

A Painter's Eye, Nice / Marie Bashkirtseff

Looking Up / Xavier De Maistre

Quivering Red Life / Vernon Lee

`Heavens' Said I, Near Khimara / Edward Lear

On Foot and Free / Edmondo De Amicis

Le Passeggiata, a Male Gaze / Mark Twain

Indiscreet at Bandol / Katherine Mansfield

Maskers / D. H. Lawrence

A Fever of the Feet / Robert Louis Stevenson

Emotional, Estonia / Johann Gottfried Seume

On Foot? / A. J. Evans

So I Drove / Elizabeth Von Arnim

Borders / A. N. Cooper

Wallachian Quarantine / Hans Christian Andersen

Trenches / Nellie Bly

Sleepwalking through Halle / Robert Antelme

Generosity / Michel De Montaigne

Kisses, Chapineys, Venice / Thomas Coryat

Crimped Skate, Brussels / William Makepeace Thackeray

Fosse, Glacis, Faubourg / Frances Trollope

Without Bread / Thomas Jefferson

Eight Thousand Judiths / Thomas Carlyle

Southern Life / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Shopping / Anatole France

Playful Paris

Catacombs / Robert Macfarlane

The Cemetery at Pera / Theophile Gautier

Away from the Pleasure-Place / Amy Levy

Recollections of Cracow / Oseph Conrad

The Voice of the Street / Rebecca Solnit

Randonnee Nocturne / Kate Humble

A Caravan of Us / Nicholas Luard

Brevi Passi.

ISBN:

1912559242

9781912559244

OCLC:

1160023354