Author Duncan Minshull is the guest in a Walking Writers Salon, talking about his approach to editing and compiling his latest anthology Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World.
In his new book, Duncan Minshull, the UK’s ‘laureate of walking’, brings together the recorded footfalls of over fifty walker-writers who have travelled somewhere across the world’s seven continents. They walk across all sorts of land and cityscapes, in all sorts of climes and times; alone, in a couple or a group. These are walks that suggest a host of reasons for leaving the sedentary life behind.
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Globetrotting in the company of Duncan Minshull
A Walking Writer's Salon with Duncan Minshull. In his new book, Duncan Minshull, the UK’s ‘laureate of walking’, brings together the recorded footfalls of over fifty walker-writers who have travelled somewhere across the world’s seven continents.
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