Setting out on seven continents -- En route -- Final steps on seven continents. Globetrotting gobbets. Helen Garner -- Old soles / Lady Anne Barnard -- The vast journey ahead / Matsuo Basho -- Flocks of parrots conceal the sun / Christopher Columbus -- Arrival in Rio / Ida Laura Pfeiffer -- Laughter and chaff / Roald Amundsen -- A road is born on Dunk Island / E. J. Banfield -- A dandy in Geneva / Mark Twain -- The compost of Rome / Vernon Lee -- Jog-trotting / Julia Pardoe -- Dublin Girls / Mirza Abu Taleb Kahn -- Berlin empathy / Franz Hessell -- Constantinople, from the top / Herman Melville -- Good-by to Fez / Edith Wharton -- Kiss-in-the-ring, Port Elizabeth / Anthony Trollope -- The lonely man's walk / Mary Gaunt -- Baobab leaves for a sore foot / Rene Caillie -- Words fail, Mauritius / Charles Darwin -- Dimples / William Lithgow -- Her hand on his shoulder in Cairo / Lucie Duff -- Meccan beat / Richard Burton -- Chorus at A'yn Qenya / Raja Shehadeh -- St Olga / Michele Roberts -- Towards the Narva Gate / Georgy Gapon -- Towards Lenin / Colin Thubron -- The look of love / Taran N. Khan -- Floral beauties of Hindoostan / Mrs. R. M. Coopland -- Soul and stomach / Rabindranath Tagore -- The passing of their God / Beatrix Bulstrode -- At the Great Wall / William Edgar Geil -- Through old Japan / Isabella Bird -- Warblings / Lafcadio Hearn -- Why walk? / Thomas Jefferson -- Bombus in the Rocky Mountains / John Charles Fremont -- Flower girls, rock girls / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins -- The stars had nothing else to do / Frederick Whymper -- Follow the North Star / Sarah H. Bradford -- Quedaquae / James Phinney Baxter -- San Francisco to New York on a wager / Ethel Lynn -- Hay frutas? / D. H. Lawrence -- Through a ghost forest / Rachel Carson -- Forest walkers in South America -- Silver Pathway, South Georgia / Ernest Shackleton -- Into the bush / Katherine Mansfield -- Runaways of the Western Desert / Doris Pilkington Garimara -- Lulled / Jean-Paul Clebert -- Never the high grass / Eslanda Goode Robeson -- Own armchair / Alexander Kinglake -- Home alive / Frances Trollope -- This was Rio / William Boyd -- Ushered to the pole / Edith M. Ronne -- Forty minutes for the remains of my life / Helen Garner -- Globetrotting gobbets.
Summary:
"In Globetrotting, Duncan Minshull, the UK's "laureate of walking," brings together the work of more than fifty walker-writers who have traveled the world's seven continents by foot. From the 1500s to the present day comes a memorable band of explorers and adventurers, scientists and missionaries, pleasure-seekers and literary drifters recalling their experiences and asking themselves a compelling question--why travel this way in the first place?"--Amazon.com.
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