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Contents
ОглавлениеTitle Page
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1
Edale to Kinder Scout: The Peak District and the First Modern Rambling Battle
Chapter 2
Rannoch to Corrour Shooting Lodge in a Howling storm: An investigation of the Lure of Wilderness, and the Earliest Days of Organised Rambling
Chapter 3
Dorking to Box Hill: Introducing Jane Austen, and the Subsequent Rise of the Victorian Walking Club
Chapter 4
A Swift Detour: To Briefly Examine Walkers as Deviants, Outcasts and Fugitives – and as Doomed, Wandering Souls
Chapter 5
A Day Out Among The Tors and Mires of Dartmoor: The Prototype National Park
Chapter 6
Seatoller to Haystacks, Underskiddaw to Dodd Point: The Lake District and the Cults of Wordsworth, Wainwright and Withnail
Chapter 7
Rhossili to Llanrhidian: In the Gower Peninsula to Consider the Surprisingly Long History of Walking Gear – While Wearing Quite Unsuitable Clothes
Chapter 8
Higham to Cooling: The Hoo Peninsula, North Kent, in Search of Beauty in Ugliness
Chapter 9
A Brief Detour into the Lures and Attractions of Walking at Night
Chapter 10
Exploring the Preternatural Forest of Dean and Woodland Legends – While Examining the Beguiling History of Youth Hostels and B & Bs
Chapter 11
A Quick Detour Through Regenerated Cities and the Art of Urban Rambling
Chapter 12
In the Steps of Tom Stephenson Along Britain’s Many Ways – and Paying Tribute to Generations of Self-Taught Botanists
Chapter 13
Wendover to Princes Risborough: Chilterns and the History of Trespass, Via Some Very Private Property
Chapter 14
Warminster to Battlebury Fort, Salisbury Plain – an Effort to Reach England’s Inland Atlantis
Chapter 15
A Diversionary Walk on the Weird Side: A Brief Flit from Ley Lines to Stone Circles to Pan
Chapter 16
Exploring the Lures of Solitude and Dodging The Grey Man of Ben Macdhui
Chapter 17
A Day Out in Brontë Country – What Happens When Much-Treasured Walking Landscapes Become Theme Parks
Chapter 18
Recent Furious Countryside Battles: The Patches of Forbidden Land that Remain and an Unsuccessful Attempt on the River Path at Windsor
Chapter 19
From Chilham to Canterbury along the North Downs Way: The Future of Walking and of the Countryside Rolled into one Ancient Pilgrimage
Endnotes
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Other Books by Sinclair McKay
Copyright
