Walking category: 349 books
Walking Brooklyn
30 walking tours exploring historical legacies, neighborhood culture, side streets, and waterways
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The guide that shows you the best of Brooklyn. Brooklyn is comprised of dozens of vibrant neighborhoods, each with its own distinctive quality and history. But for most people, New York City is synonymous with Manhattan, and until recently few visitors have ventured beyond the famous Brooklyn Bridge...
Diagonal Walking
Slicing Through the Heart of England
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Like many others, Nick Corble was confused. Unsure of where his country was going, he decided to get engaged rather than enraged. Using only public footpaths, Diagonal Walking traces a walk along a unique line cut at 45 degrees through the very centre of the county. Starting just north of Liverpool...
Batsford's Walking Guides: The Cotswolds
20 country walks for all the family
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Batsford's Walking Guides is an exciting new gift series of walking books, aimed at the weekend, family walker. These small-format,portable, hardback books have an attractive retro feel, with nostalgic line drawings and hand-drawn maps. Each of the 20 walks have been carefully selected to appeal to...
by John Edmondson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Walking Around Britain is an e-book series aimed at the walker who wants more than just an internet route to follow. The different routes may be urban routes, nature routes, mountain routes, or any other manor of routes that are available in the local area. They are also intended to help search out...
Byways, Boots & Blisters
A History of Walkers and Walking
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
"The great affair is to move: to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. This book celebrates the history of walking for leisure and pleasure. There’s no shortage of the famous, and the not so famous, exponents...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs...
Walking Manhattan
30 Strolls Exploring Cultural Treasures, Entertainment Centers, and Historical Sites in the Heart of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Walking Manhattan by Ellen Levitt is written with many people in mind: the tourists who have never before visited Manhattan as well as those returning to the Big Apple; the residents who want to ramble through parts of Gotham with which they are less familiar; the "I've seen it all" New...
Walking Queens
30 Tours for Discovering the Diverse Communities, Historic Places, and Natural Treasures of New York City's Largest Borough
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Home to more than 2.3 million people who speak at least 150 different languages, Queens is heralded as the most multicultural place on Earth. People go there to watch Major League Baseball or the U.S. Open. Perhaps they venture just across the river, to check out a trendy new restaurant, bar, or performance...
A Week in Provence
Walking in the Verdon Gorge and Haute Provence
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
A much needed autumn break walking in the Verdon Gorge region of Provence turns into a fraught lesson in how not to speak French as the author gets to grips with the language of love, romance and strange combinations of Cs, Qs, apostrophes and genders. Written with her by now trademark self-deprecating...
Walking With Hadrian
A walk through time and fog along Hadrian's Wall
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
A walk through time and fog along Hadrian’s Wall. Built almost two thousand years ago on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian and marking the northern-most boundary of the Roman Empire, Hadrian’s Wall is one of Britain’s most enduring ancient monuments and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2003...
by John Wilks
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
In 2007 John Wilks updated his bestselling Walks Through History: Kent book. When JMD Media were asked to make this book available as an e-book, we decided to give the customer a choice. You can buy the whole book with all 24 walks for full price, or just buy an individual walk as a taster or because...
by Galloway, Jeff
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Walking - The Complete Book will motivate you to get moving, avoid aches and pains, and enjoy a more energetic life. Whether you are just starting to walk around the block, or have been active for years, Walking - The Complete Book has a world of information that will make you want to walk every day,...
Walking Vancouver
36 Walking Tours Exploring Spectacular Waterfront, Dynamic Neighborhoods, Hip Hangouts, and Tasty Di
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
There's no better way to explore one of the world's most livable cities than on foot. Walking Vancouver shows you Vancouver, British Columbia as you've never seen it before, whether you're a die-hard local or a first-time visitor. Site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the city is already renown for its...
Walking Seattle
35 Tours of the Jet City's Parks, Landmarks, Neighborhoods, and Scenic Views
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The Queen City of the Pacific Northwest was once known principally for the spectacular forests, mountains, and waters surrounding it.
But now, what's in Seattle is as famous as what's outside it. This is a vibrant young city full of attractions. It's a center for several hi-tech industries...