This latest collection of walking literature from Notting Hill Editions celebrates the lure and allure of the European continent and its sights, sounds and aromas-brought into even sharper relief when traveling it by foot. On foot the world comes our way. We get close to things. Close to the Continent`s alpine ranges, arterial rivers, expansive coastlines. Close to its ancient and magisterial cities, its buildings and gardens and mysterious thoroughfares; and close to the walkers themselves-the Grand Tourers and explorers, strollers and saunterers, on their hikes and quests, parades and urban drifts. Sauntering features sixty writers-classic and current, locals and visitors alike, who laud and lament all things European. Twenty-two countries are traversed. We walk with 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; Robert Macfarlane dropping deep into underground Paris; Hans Christian Anderson in quarantine; Joseph Conrad in Cracow; and Rebecca Solnit reimagining change on the streets of Prague. Enjoy following these and a host of others on journeys long and short-'long pas' and 'passi brevi.' Avanti! Contributors include: Patrick Leigh Fermor; John Hillaby; Robert Walser; Henriette D`Angeville; Joseph Roth; Richard Wright; Werner Herzog; Robert Antelme; George Sand; Rainer Maria Rilke; Robert Macfarlane; Rebecca Solnit; Kate Humble; Nicholas Luard; Edith Wharton; Elizabeth Van Armin; Joseph Conrad; D. H. Lawrence; Vernon Lee; Edmondo De Amicis; Guy Debord; Walter Benjamin; Charles Baudelaire; Mark Twain; Thomas Coryat.
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This latest collection of walking literature from Notting Hill Editions celebrates the lure and allure of the European continent and its sights, sounds and aromas-brought into even sharper relief ...