While Wandering

With its stories of strolling, poems about pavement-pounding and wonderings on wandering, this is the indispensable collection for the flneur and the rambler and everyone in between. Take a turn with Jane Austen, stride side by side with Colm Tibn, let restless William Wordsworth lead you through brook and road before a detour with Stella Gibbons to the park.Whether mountaineering with Mark Twain or visiting Oxford Street with Julian Barnes be sure to take this anthology with you on your ambulations. With a new foreword by Robert Macfarlane. Previously published with the title The Vintage Book of Walking