Name: A Ramble Through the History of Walking by Laws, Bill
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Author: Laws, Bill

Social & cultural history

Published on 26 June 2025 by The History Press Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 94 Illustrations, black and white
198 x 129 |

‘The great affair is to move: to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot,’ wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. This book celebrates the history of walking for leisure and pleasure.

There’s no shortage of the famous, and the not so famous, exponents of a good, long walk: Dr Johnson and his faithful Boswell on their Hebridean jaunt; John Taylor, whose Penniless Pilgrimage, a record of his 1618 journey from London to Edinburgh, provided the first account of a walking tour; and Samuel Coleridge who conceived his epic tale of the Ancient Mariner on a ramble through Devon. The author also includes the stories of key inventions: the cagoule, the Thermos flask, the rucksack, Gore-Tex and the

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