# Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World - Hardcover

by **Duncan Minshull** (Editor), **Duncan Minshull** (Introduction by)

**"There was nowhere to go but everywhere." --Jack Kerouac**

From Duncan Minshull, the UK's "laureate of walking," a collection of more than fifty writings about hiking the globe from contemporary and classic authors such as Mark Twain, William Boyd, Edith Wharton, Helen Garner, Rabindranath Tagore, and many more.

In _Globetrotting,_ Duncan Minshull, the UK's "laureate of walking," brings together the work of more than fifty walker-writers who have traveled the world's seven continents by foot. From the 1500s to the present day comes a memorable band of explorers and adventurers, scientists and missionaries, pleasure-seekers and literary drifters recalling their experiences and asking themselves a compelling question--_why_ travel this way in the first place?

With contributions from Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Vernon Lee, Sarah H. Bradford, Rabindranath Tagore, D. H. Lawrence, Isabella Bird, Katherine Mansfield, Rachel Carson, Helen Garner, Jean-Paul Clébert, Colin Thubron, William Boyd, Matsuo Bashō, and many more, _Globetrotting_ takes us across the streets of London, Rome, Melbourne, Cairo, Kiev and Kabu; through the frozen wastes of Antarctica; along the pilgrim paths of Japan; into the jungles of Ghana; and around the Great Wall of China.

### Author Biography

**Duncan Minshull** is a freelance audio producer and anthologist, and formerly a senior producer at BBC Radio where he commissioned and produced the series _Book Of The Week_, _Book at Bedtime_, _The Essay_, and _Short Story_. His previous books include _While Wandering_, _Beneath My Feet_, _Sauntering_, and _Where My Feet Fall_. He has written extensively about the subject of walking for _The Times_ (UK), _Financial Times_, _Daily Telegraph_, _The Guardian_, _Conde Nast Traveller, Slightly Foxed_, _Psychologies_, and _Vogue_. He lives in West London and leads walking tours--"walk and talks"--across various parts of the UK.

**Number of Pages:** 176

**Dimensions:** 0.65 x 7.5 x 4.75 IN

**Publication Date:** April 02, 2024

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