{"product_id":"globetrotting-duncan-minshull-9781912559459","title":"Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"There was nowhere to go but everywhere.\" --Jack Kerouac \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Duncan Minshull, the UK's \"laureate of walking,\" a collection of more than fifty writings about hiking the globe from contemporary and classic authors such as Mark Twain, William Boyd, Edith Wharton, Helen Garner, Rabindranath Tagore, and many more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGlobetrotting, \u003c\/i\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e travel this way in the first place? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith contributions from Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Vernon Lee, Sarah H. Bradford, Rabindranath Tagore, D. H. Lawrence, Isabella Bird, Katherine Mansfield, Rachel Carson, Helen Garner, Jean-Paul Cl饕ert, Colin Thubron, William Boyd, Matsuo Bashō, and many more, \u003ci\u003eGlobetrotting\u003c\/i\u003e takes us across the streets of London, Rome, Melbourne, Cairo, Kiev and Kabu; through the frozen wastes of Antarctica; along the pilgrim paths of Japan; into the jungles of Ghana; and around the Great Wall of China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Duncan Minshull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1912559455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912559459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Notting Hill Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 4.75w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2024","brand":"Duncan Minshull","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44302176616703,"sku":"9781912559459","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a4f4827c-1aa9-42d4-808e-40713cafa2d6.jpg?v=1695159952","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/globetrotting-duncan-minshull-9781912559459","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}