Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to welcome back author Duncan Minshull for our October 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.
From the 1500s to current times, Minshull has collected here a memorable band of explorers and adventurers, scientists and missionaries, pleasure-seekers and literary drifters recalling their experiences. Some are well-known writers, some classic authors and some re-discovered gems.
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, Katharine Mansfield, Rachel Carson, Helen Garner, Jean Pierre Clébert, Colin Thubron, William Boyd, Julia Pardoe, Doris Pilkington Garimara, and many more. Globetrotting takes us across the streets of London, Rome, Melbourne, Cairo, Kyiv and Kabul; through the frozen wastes of Antarctica; along the pilgrim paths of Japan; into the jungles of Ghana; around the Great Wall of China.
Walking Writers Salons are hour-long events in which you will get to meet a Walking Writer and learn from them how they weave writing and walking, and how they interpret their surroundings. Each Salon will include a discussion with the author, inviting questions from the audience, and will include a multiple choice quiz in which a winner will receive a prize of a print copy of “Globetrotting” kindly provided by Notting Hill Editions.
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