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Globetrotting: writers walk the world
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Setting out on seven continents
En route
Final steps on seven continents.
What a world was seen afoot / Bayard Taylor
Old soles / Lady Anne Barnard
The vast journey ahead / Matsuo Basho
Flocks of parrots conceal the sun / Christopher Columbus
Arrival in Rio / Ida Laura Pfeiffer
Laughter and chaff / Roald Amundsen
A road is born on Dunk Island / E. J. Banfield
A dandy in Geneva / Mark Twain
The compost of Rome / Vernon Lee
Jog-trotting / Julia Pardoe
Dublin Girls / Mirza Abu Taleb Kahn
Berlin empathy / Franz Hessell
Constantinople, from the top / Herman Melville
Good-by to Fez / Edith Wharton
Kiss-in-the-ring, Port Elizabeth / Anthony Trollope
The lonely man's walk / Mary Gaunt
Baobab leaves for a sore foot / Rene Caillie
Words fail, Mauritius / Charles Darwin
Dimples / William Lithgow
Her hand on his shoulder in Cairo / Lucie Duff
Meccan beat / Richard Burton
Chorus at A'yn Qenya / Raja Shehadeh
St Olga / Michele Roberts
Towards the Narva Gate / Georgy Gapon
Towards Lenin / Colin Thubron
The look of love / Taran N. Khan
Floral beauties of Hindoostan / Mrs. R. M. Coopland
Soul and stomach / Rabindranath Tagore
The passing of their God / Beatrix Bulstrode
At the Great Wall / William Edgar Geil
Through old Japan / Isabella Bird
Warblings / Lafcadio Hearn
Why walk? / Thomas Jefferson
Bombus in the Rocky Mountains / John Charles Fremont
Flower girls, rock girls / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
The stars had nothing else to do / Frederick Whymper
Follow the North Star / Sarah H. Bradford
Quedaquae / James Phinney Baxter
San Francisco to New York on a wager / Ethel Lynn
Hay frutas? / D. H. Lawrence
Through a ghost forest / Rachel Carson
Forest walkers in South America
Silver Pathway, South Georgia / Ernest Shackleton
Into the bush / Katherine Mansfield
Runaways of the Western Desert / Doris Pilkington Garimara
Lulled / Jean-Paul Clebert
Never the high grass / Eslanda Goode Robeson
Own armchair / Alexander Kinglake
Home alive / Frances Trollope
This was Rio / William Boyd
Ushered to the pole / Edith M. Ronne
Forty minutes for the remains of my life / Helen Garner
Globetrotting gobbets.
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Contributors
Abū Ṭālib Khān,1752-1806? contributor
Amundsen, Roald,1872-1928 contributor
Banfield, E. J.1852-1923 contributor
Barnard, Anne Lindsay,Lady,1750-1825 contributor
Baxter, James Phinney,1831-1921 contributor
Amundsen, Roald,1872-1928 contributor
Banfield, E. J.1852-1923 contributor
Barnard, Anne Lindsay,Lady,1750-1825 contributor
Baxter, James Phinney,1831-1921 contributor
Bird, Isabella L.1831-1904 contributor
Boyd, William,1895-1972 contributor
Bradford, Sarah H.1818-1912 contributor
Burton, Richard Francis,Sir,1821-1890 contributor
Caillié, René,1799-1838 contributor
Carson, Rachel,1907-1964 contributor
Clébert, Jean-Paul contributor
Columbus, Christopher contributor
Coopland, R. M. contributor
Darwin, Charles,1809-1882 contributor
Duff Gordon, Lucie,Lady,1821-1869 contributor
Frémont, John Charles,1813-1890 contributor
Gapon, Georgiĭ Apollonovich,1870-1906 contributor
Garner, Helen,1942- contributor
Gaunt, Mary,1861-1942 contributor
Geil, William Edgar contributor
Gull, Beatrix Manico,1869-1951 contributor
Hearn, Lafcadio,1850-1904 contributor
Hessell, Franz contributor
Jefferson, Thomas,1743-1826 contributor
Khan, Taran contributor
Kinglake, Alexander William,1809-1891 contributor
Lawrence, D. H.1885-1930 contributor
Lee, Vernon,1856-1935 contributor
Lithgow, William,1582-1645? contributor
Lynn, Ethel,1881- contributor
Mansfield, Katherine,1888-1923 contributor
Matsuo, Bashō,1644-1694 contributor
Melville, Herman,1819-1891 contributor
Minshull, Duncan author of introduction, editor
Pardoe,Miss1804?-1862 contributor
Pfeiffer, Ida Laura contributor
Pilkington, Doris,1937-2014 contributor
Roberts, Michèle contributor
Robeson, Eslanda Goode,1896-1965 contributor
Ronne, Edith M.1919-2009 contributor
Shackleton, Ernest Henry,Sir,1874-1922 contributor
Shehadeh, Raja,1951- contributor
Tagore, Rabindranath,1861-1941 author
Taylor, Bayard,1825-1878 contributor
Thubron, Colin,1939- contributor
Trollope, Anthony,1815-1882 contributor
Trollope, Frances Milton,1780-1863 contributor
Twain, Mark,1835-1910 contributor
Wharton, Edith,1862-1937 contributor
Whymper, Frederick contributor
Winnemucca, Sarah,1844?-1891 contributor
Boyd, William,1895-1972 contributor
Bradford, Sarah H.1818-1912 contributor
Burton, Richard Francis,Sir,1821-1890 contributor
Caillié, René,1799-1838 contributor
Carson, Rachel,1907-1964 contributor
Clébert, Jean-Paul contributor
Columbus, Christopher contributor
Coopland, R. M. contributor
Darwin, Charles,1809-1882 contributor
Duff Gordon, Lucie,Lady,1821-1869 contributor
Frémont, John Charles,1813-1890 contributor
Gapon, Georgiĭ Apollonovich,1870-1906 contributor
Garner, Helen,1942- contributor
Gaunt, Mary,1861-1942 contributor
Geil, William Edgar contributor
Gull, Beatrix Manico,1869-1951 contributor
Hearn, Lafcadio,1850-1904 contributor
Hessell, Franz contributor
Jefferson, Thomas,1743-1826 contributor
Khan, Taran contributor
Kinglake, Alexander William,1809-1891 contributor
Lawrence, D. H.1885-1930 contributor
Lee, Vernon,1856-1935 contributor
Lithgow, William,1582-1645? contributor
Lynn, Ethel,1881- contributor
Mansfield, Katherine,1888-1923 contributor
Matsuo, Bashō,1644-1694 contributor
Melville, Herman,1819-1891 contributor
Minshull, Duncan author of introduction, editor
Pardoe,Miss1804?-1862 contributor
Pfeiffer, Ida Laura contributor
Pilkington, Doris,1937-2014 contributor
Roberts, Michèle contributor
Robeson, Eslanda Goode,1896-1965 contributor
Ronne, Edith M.1919-2009 contributor
Shackleton, Ernest Henry,Sir,1874-1922 contributor
Shehadeh, Raja,1951- contributor
Tagore, Rabindranath,1861-1941 author
Taylor, Bayard,1825-1878 contributor
Thubron, Colin,1939- contributor
Trollope, Anthony,1815-1882 contributor
Trollope, Frances Milton,1780-1863 contributor
Twain, Mark,1835-1910 contributor
Wharton, Edith,1862-1937 contributor
Whymper, Frederick contributor
Winnemucca, Sarah,1844?-1891 contributor
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9781912559459
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