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29. Simon Armitage, Walking Away: Further Travels with a Troubadour on England’s South West Coast Path
I read Simon Armitage’s Walking Away: Further Travels with a Troubadour on England’s South West Coast Path while walking along Hadrian’s Wall. Okay, not while trudging along beside rivers and roads or climbing steep hills (the poor Roman soldiers who hauled stones and mortar up those heights), but on the flight to England, on trains, … Continue reading 29. Simon Armitage, Walking Away: Further Travels with a Troubadour on England’s South West Coast Path →
• A Pennine Journey
September 1938. The Munich Crisis. Hitler is threatening to invade Czechoslovakia. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In England, people are forming civil defence units and preparing for the conflict that will begin if Hitler’s demands are not met by his deadline: October 1. And Alfred Wainwright, a clerk in the Blackburn Borough Engineering […]
