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INTRODUCTION 1
H. Belloc
WALKING AN ANTIDOTE TO CITY POISON 17
Sidney Smith
ON GOING A JOURNEY 19
William Hazlitt
THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY'S HORSE 37
Izaak Walton
A STROLLING PEDLAR 39
Sir Walter Scott
A STOUT PEDESTRIAN 42
Sir Walter Scott
LAKE SCENERY 48
William Wordsworth
WALKING, AND THE WILD 52
H. D. Thoreau
A YOUNG TRAMP 104
Charles Dickens
DE QUINCEY LEADS THE SIMPLE LIFE 111
Thomas de Quincey
A RESOLUTION 116
George Borrow
THE SNOWDON RANGER 131
George Borrow
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD 143
Walt Whitman
WALKING TOURS 159
R. L. Stevenson
SYLVANUS URBAN DISCOVERS A GOOD BREW 173
Gentleman's Magazine
MINCHMOOR 175
Dr John Brown
IN PRAISE OF WALKING 191
Leslie Stephen
THE EXHILARATIONS OF THE ROAD 221
John Burroughs

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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