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Walking Books
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 6,520 ratings — published 2014
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as walking)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,824 ratings — published 2012
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as walking)
avg rating 4.07 — 451,134 ratings — published 1998
The Salt Path (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 105,148 ratings — published 2018
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 877,103 ratings — published 2012
Walking: One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as walking)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,634 ratings — published 2019
A Philosophy of Walking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 8,201 ratings — published 2009
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as walking)
avg rating 3.94 — 197,171 ratings — published 2012
Walking (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as walking)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,418 ratings — published 1861
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as walking)
avg rating 3.25 — 764 ratings — published 2008
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as walking)
avg rating 3.58 — 4,228 ratings — published 2017
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as walking)
avg rating 3.33 — 2,717 ratings — published 2019
A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 9,948 ratings — published 1977
The Rings of Saturn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 18,162 ratings — published 1995
Landlines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as walking)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,998 ratings — published 2022
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as walking)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,431 ratings — published 2022
Walking Home: A Poet's Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as walking)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,648 ratings — published 2012
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as walking)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,602 ratings — published 2020
A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as walking)
avg rating 3.70 — 369 ratings — published
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as walking)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,671 ratings — published 1977
Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as walking)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,945 ratings — published 1978
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as walking)
avg rating 4.11 — 32,189 ratings — published 2014
You Are Here (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 96,215 ratings — published 2024
The Wild Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as walking)
avg rating 3.92 — 19,359 ratings — published 2020
On Trails: An Exploration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 9,102 ratings — published 2016
Between the Woods and the Water (Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as walking)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,772 ratings — published 1986
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,320 ratings — published 2005
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills ( (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as walking)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,306 ratings — published 2014
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as walking)
avg rating 3.83 — 820 ratings — published 2016
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,448 ratings — published
How to Walk (Mindfulness Essentials, #4)
by (shelved 22 times as walking)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,050 ratings — published 2013
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as walking)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,749 ratings — published 2011
Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 7,718 ratings — published 1782
Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as walking)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,567 ratings — published 2025
In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as walking)
avg rating 3.82 — 985 ratings — published 2018
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as walking)
avg rating 3.84 — 33,681 ratings — published 2017
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as walking)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,897 ratings — published 2012
A Walk Across America (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as walking)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,501 ratings — published 1979
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 5,140 ratings — published 2013
Open City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as walking)
avg rating 3.49 — 17,678 ratings — published 2011
London Orbital (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as walking)
avg rating 3.68 — 859 ratings — published 2002
The Songlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as walking)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,593 ratings — published 1987
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as walking)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,974 ratings — published 1980
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as walking)
avg rating 3.70 — 346 ratings — published 2015
Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as walking)
avg rating 4.16 — 565 ratings — published 2014
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as walking)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,800 ratings — published 2013
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as walking)
avg rating 4.00 — 293,875 ratings — published 1979
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as walking)
avg rating 3.51 — 10,104 ratings — published 2003
Sur les chemins noirs (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as walking)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,460 ratings — published 2016
The Wild Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as walking)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,777 ratings — published 2007
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
― John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
― John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.
Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It’s quite wonderful, really.
You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, “far removed from the seats of strife,” as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.
There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.
At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already. But most of the time you don’t think. No point. Instead, you exist in a kind of mobile Zen mode, your brain like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying but not actually part of the body below. Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. At the end of the day you don’t think, “Hey, I did sixteen miles today,” any more than you think, “Hey, I took eight-thousand breaths today.” It’s just what you do.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It’s quite wonderful, really.
You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, “far removed from the seats of strife,” as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.
There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.
At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already. But most of the time you don’t think. No point. Instead, you exist in a kind of mobile Zen mode, your brain like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying but not actually part of the body below. Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. At the end of the day you don’t think, “Hey, I did sixteen miles today,” any more than you think, “Hey, I took eight-thousand breaths today.” It’s just what you do.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
