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Excerpt: Of Walks and Walking Tours. The Walking Tour.

In this excerpt Harold articulates the timeless joys of the longer distance walk. The pedestrian of today still shares the same philosophy and creed. It is one of the building blocks the constitutes journey and indeed contributes to one of the glorious mysteries of walking.

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.”

These Boots

These boots are a pair of Rossiter Scrubs. I adopted them in 1991. They were my goto serious bushwalking boots of the time. They were not worn for any other reason, other than serious walking. Folklore suggested that I was required to own a pair of full leather, thick soled, ankle supporting boots. In theContinue reading “These Boots”

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”

Gone Camping

This essay originally appeared in Eureka Street Volume 9 number 6 by Bill Garner in July/August 1999. BIll’s book “Born in a tent” was published in October 2013 Whilst it may initially seem incongruous to be associating car camping with walking, both pursuits are linked by the yearning for the simple life. When the vehicleContinue reading “Gone Camping”