Robert MacFarlane on Walking

Richard Long, A Line in Japan, 1979 "The Old Ways is filled with walkers of great stamina and remarkable charisma. One of them, Edward Thomas -- the poet who died at the Battle of Arras in 1917, and who is my ghostly guide on my walks -- spent much of his life trying to walk his way into calm, and walk his way out of depression. He walked thousands of miles along the old ways and ancient tracks of England and Wales. Such routes became for him a logic of navigation...