The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers
Hilaire Belloc
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This 1911 anthology is a collection of musings on the pleasures, challenges, and experience of walking. It features some famous authors (Thoreau, Dickens, Whitman, etc.) and others who are less well known. The works include essays, excerpts from fictional works, and first-person accounts of adventures had while walking. The collection was compiled by Hilaire Belloc, a Franco-English writer, many of whose books have been recorded for Librivox. - Summary by Verla Viera (5 hr 45 min)
Chapters
Introduction | 21:27 | Read by Verla Viera |
Walking an Antidote to City Poison; On Going a Journey | 28:59 | Read by valroth |
The Bishop of Salisbury’s Horse; A Strolling Pedlar; A Stout Pedestrian; Lake … | 22:27 | Read by Steve C |
Walking, and the Wild, Part 1 | 25:06 | Read by tshoes76 |
Walking, and the Wild, Part 2 | 23:33 | Read by tshoes76 |
Walking, and the Wild, Part 3 | 23:52 | Read by tshoes76 |
A Young Tramp | 10:35 | Read by April6090 |
De Quincey leads the Simple Life | 7:06 | Read by Stacey Malcolm |
A Resolution | 18:52 | Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi |
The Snowdon Ranger | 17:00 | Read by Agnes Robert Behr |
Song of the Open Road | 19:31 | Read by valroth |
Walking Tours; Sylvanus Urban discovers a Good Brew | 23:35 | Read by jenno |
Minchmoor | 22:59 | Read by Agnes Robert Behr |
In Praise of Walking, Part 1 | 21:18 | Read by marisad6 |
In Praise of Walking, Part 2 | 23:36 | Read by marisad6 |
The Exhilarations of the Road | 35:39 | Read by janicwedge |