Literature

Stories about Walking

Fictional treatments of long-distance travel on foot: Harold Fry and 'You Are Here' [1400 words 6 mins

Nov 27 •

Ronald Turnbull

Egdon Heath – a fictitious moorland in Dorset

It takes a hardy soul to cross the bleak moorland – a Thomas Hardy soul… [1500 words 7 min

Oct 30 •

Ronald Turnbull

The trip into the mountains

Very short short-story by Franz Kafka [1100 wsords, 5 mins

Sep 11 •

Ronald Turnbull

Too high for breathing flesh

Can you be a mountaineer without ever going up a mountain? If so, then Virginia Woolf was a mountaineer… [1600 words 7 mins

Jun 19 •

Ronald Turnbull

Virginia Woolf meets the Matterhorn

Woolf's late short story 'The Symbol' is about a mountain. It really is! [1200 words 10min

Jun 12 •

Ronald Turnbull

William Shakespeare, mountain man

Birnam Wood, a cave in the Brecon Beacons, and a long walk to Milford Haven: from the man who invented mountaineers [1000 words, 4 min

Apr 17 •

Ronald Turnbull

From the Alps to Bloomsbury

George Mallory, Everest climber, lives on in a novel by EM Forster. [1700 words, 8 mins

Mar 27 •

Ronald Turnbull

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