GEOFF NICHOLSON: THE LONG LOST WALKER

  We know that all great enterprises, not least great walking enterprises, contain elements of  danger and absurdity.   Even so, walking 400...

      This is from John Buchan’s 1914 novel  The Thirty-Nine Steps .  The narrator is Richard Hannay. ‘The night was fine and clear as I wal...

  I don’t say golf is ‘a good walk spoiled.’ I say it’s much, much worse than that, but I  know that other views are possible.   The earlies...

  Fresh over the transom comes a copy of the revised edition of the excellent   The Art of  Wandering  by Merlin Coverley, subtitled ‘The Wr...

  This is new to me but it appeared in the Harvard Crimson in February 1959, written by one Alice P Albright under the Headline ‘ Gertrude S...