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Walks of a Lifetime: Extraordinary Hikes from Around the World
Walk the World’s Greatest Trails
To walk is to discover, from those first halting steps as a child to walking the world’s greatest long-distance trails. Experience breathtaking coastlines, mountain ranges, historic landscapes, wilderness areas, religious pilgrimages, great cities, and iconic rivers. Walk to learn more about our beautiful and curious world, to be healthy and happy, to add adventure and authenticity to life, and to learn something about yourself in the process. Walking is simple, but it can also be profound.
Veteran outdoor enthusiasts Robert and Martha Manning invite readers to experience the joy of walking in Walks of a Lifetime. They offer firsthand descriptions of thirty of the world’s great long-distance trails and multiday walks, including personal anecdotes, natural and cultural history, practical tips, and full-color photographs and maps. Walks range from inn-to-inn routes to backpacking treks and are found across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. Trail descriptions are accompanied by a series of short, engaging essays on the many dimensions of walking.
To walk is to discover, from those first halting steps as a child to walking the world’s greatest long-distance trails. Experience breathtaking coastlines, mountain ranges, historic landscapes, wilderness areas, religious pilgrimages, great cities, and iconic rivers. Walk to learn more about our beautiful and curious world, to be healthy and happy, to add adventure and authenticity to life, and to learn something about yourself in the process. Walking is simple, but it can also be profound.
Veteran outdoor enthusiasts Robert and Martha Manning invite readers to experience the joy of walking in Walks of a Lifetime. They offer firsthand descriptions of thirty of the world’s great long-distance trails and multiday walks, including personal anecdotes, natural and cultural history, practical tips, and full-color photographs and maps. Walks range from inn-to-inn routes to backpacking treks and are found across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. Trail descriptions are accompanied by a series of short, engaging essays on the many dimensions of walking.
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256 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2017
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March 17, 2018
Perused rather than read. Pretty pictures, illustrative maps and brief, memoirs of walks along 30 trails on 6 continents. Break out those Skechers it’s almost hiking season.
August 23, 2018
This was a good book about walking some of the World's great trails. My wife and I have walked on several of them.
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April 15, 2018book of long distance walks (from a day to weeks) around the world made by a married couple from Vermont.
gorgeous photos.
between descriptions, the authors give advice, history, education, and philosophy of walking
gorgeous photos.
between descriptions, the authors give advice, history, education, and philosophy of walking
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews