“On the road the weak and strong points of character are revealed. There are those who complain, making each mile seem like three; there are those who have untapped reserves of cheerfulness, who sing their companions through the tired hours.” Stephen Graham Stephen Graham World Traveller
Category Archives: Historical
Guide Alice: Podcast
This post will interest Victorians with its plot based around Mt Buffalo in Victoria’s high country.
Arthur Barrett – Victoria’s First Walker
Tim Erikson of the Victorian Race Walking Club has done significant work in documenting the history of competitive walking in the state of Victoria. This Original article deals with Arthur Barrett and his 1893 walk from Melbourne to Sorrento. On the afternoon of 25th January, 1893, 1 was standing on Princes Bridge in a highlyContinue reading “Arthur Barrett – Victoria’s First Walker”
Essay: George Macaulay Trevelyan “ Walking” 1914
“I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.”
Quote: Horace Kephart 1916
Horace Sowers Kephart (September 8, 1862 – April 2, 1931) was an American travel writer and librarian Seriously, is it good for men and women and children to swarm together in cities and stay there, keep staying there, till their instincts are so far perverted that they lose all taste for their natural element, theContinue reading “Quote: Horace Kephart 1916”
Hemingway, Thoreau, Jefferson and the Virtues of a Good Long Walk
Like all walking related writing, age does not weary the content.
Flânerie
Flâneur in English is via French from the Old Norse verb flana “to wander with no purpose”
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.”
