Slow Journeys
The Pleasures of Travelling by Foot
Published on 1. October 2009
272 pages
978-1-74176-812-1 (ISBN)
Description
A slow ramble through the French countryside perhaps, or a tramp along New Zealand's Milford Track, or maybe an indulgent luxury walk in Tasmania? Gillian Souter helps you plan and prepare to make those dreams a reality.
While focusing on a comfortable approach to walking - on-path rather than off-track, staying in simple accommodation rather than camping, enjoying a glass of wine with dinner instead of purifying your drinking water - Slow Journeys is generous in its whimsical considerations and observations of the joys of taking a long walk. It also offers practical information on the hurdles all walkers face, including preparing your itinerary, choosing kit, preventing blisters and mastering the intricacies of navigation.
So put on your boots, hoist your pack and head off down that winding track to discover the pleasures of travelling by foot.
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10/2009
Allen & Unwin
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Gillian Souter is a life-long walker who turned her passion into a business, having produced three guidebooks for walkers. She has the good fortune to live at Hyams Beach on the New South Wales south coast, where, in between trips to hiking destinations overseas, she gets her fill of walking in the local bush and along the coast.
Content
- Part title
- Title page
- Contents
- Preambling
- 1. Why walk far?
- 2. Spoilt for choice
- 3. Finding your stride
- 4. Setting the scene
- 5. Where in the world?
- 6. Planning an itinerary
- 7. Keeping company
- 8. Kit and caboodle
- 9. Sustenance
- 10. Seeking shelter
- 11. Finding the way
- 12. Obstacles and aids
- 13. Weathering well
- 14. Health hazards
- 15. Walking etiquette
- 16. Along the way
- 17. Recording the walk
- 18. Regaining civilisation
- Perambulations
- Top ten lists
- Useful websites
- Further reading
- Packing checklist
- Acknowledgments
- Index
