Category Archives: Historical

Podcast: Walking a Pedestrian Pursuit

“Humans were made for walking. It is as natural to us as breathing. Yet we avoid it whenever and however we can.” Michael Enwright. The Sunday Edition This is a revisit of a 2013 recording about our humble pursuit. It’s a concise aggregation of historical topics as well the contemporary. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/walking-a-pedestrian-pursuit-1.5412014 I commend this workContinue reading “Podcast: Walking a Pedestrian Pursuit”

Article: The Unbearable Smugness of Walking. MICHAEL LAPOINTE.

In this essay Michael draws on some contemporary texts by Duncan Minshull, Erling Kagge and Rebecca Solnit as he meanders to the conclusion that as a writer, when he walks he can’t help working. I admire this passage. What Kagge wants to stress, though, is that he writes in reaction to the modern menaces ofContinue reading “Article: The Unbearable Smugness of Walking. MICHAEL LAPOINTE.”

Henry Lawson and Walking

Henry Lawson was born in 1867. In this brief examination we look at Henry Lawson’s time in outback NSW in the early 1890’s where he immersed himself in drought conditions for literary ends. He walks with his mate Jim Gordon. Let’s start with Bruce Elder’s piece in the Griffith Review. Now head over to aContinue reading “Henry Lawson and Walking”

Walking For Health And Pleasure

The following passage is an excerpt from the introduction of a book entitled “Wonderful Walks in Victoria”. It was published in 1931 by the “Betterment and Publicity board of the Victorian Railways”. There was a push to get the metropolitan population out and about via the railways. The language is rich and inviting. Walking forContinue reading “Walking For Health And Pleasure”

On WALKING and TALKING

I present this essay on walking and talking by E Kaye from the Melbourne Bushwalkers in the 1954 no 5 edition of the “Walk” magazine. We have been walking for a long time, we have been walking for millions of years. We have walked a long way. It took us a long time to walkContinue reading “On WALKING and TALKING”