Tag Archives: walking

This Albion: Snapshots of a Compromised Land by Charlie Hill

Posted on 16/09/2024 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – September 2024 I had for some time believed the key to effective writing was to concentrate on the surface of things. Record them faithfully, and they’d do the work for you. After all, the world is manifestly absurd … Continue reading →

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The Edge of Cymru: A Journey – by Julie Brominicks

Posted on 30/03/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – March 2023 Like biodiversity, Cymraeg survives, but only just, sustained by the farming community, championed by campaigners, enabled by legislators. A language survey in 2013-2015 found only 24 percent of the population spoke Cymraeg – but that … Continue reading →

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Resurrection River by Pete Evans

Posted on 22/01/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2023 The Alun is a river of tranquillity, of droughts, floods and trade; fortunes made and lost. At times it doesn’t exist at all and yet at the same time it is two rivers! For anyone … Continue reading →

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Edging the City by Peter Finch

Posted on 19/01/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2023 Circumnavigating the city and then writing home had been on my mind ever since I’d encountered Iain Sinclair’s walk around the M25, London Orbital, which came out in 2002. But it was the Covid crisis … Continue reading →

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The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley

Posted on 14/12/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2022 For such a seemingly innocuous activity, and one which is commonly conducted with the participant largely oblivious to its operation, the act of walking has aquired a surprising degree of cultural significance. This is a … Continue reading →

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Every Day until Antwerp: A Walking Trip along the Railway Line by Jacqueline Schoemaker

Posted on 04/01/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2022 Traffic arteries intersect. Megastores, stench and dust. Trucks thunder along the asphalt towards the motorway. Boels Rental, Esso Express (‘diesel only’). The road slopes upwards and becomes a bridge across the Albert Canal. A monumental … Continue reading →

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Westering: Footways and folkways from Norfolk to the Welsh coast by Laurence Mitchell

Posted on 07/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 The idea was to drift west, to etch a furrow in the map of England and Wales. My plan was to walk coast to coast across the country with some sort of agenda, to follow … Continue reading →

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Midges, Maps & Muesli by Helen Krasner

Posted on 01/11/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – November 2021 I met Helen Krasner briefly many years ago, not long after she had completed her epic walk around the coastline of Britain, which she talked about, but several years  before she published her account of … Continue reading →

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I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi

Posted on 21/08/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – August 2021 Warning: This review includes a quote of the racist expletives used by the perpetrator of a hate crime. According to the CPRE, just 1% of visitors to England’s National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural … Continue reading →

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A Figure Walks

Posted on 14/10/2020 by Bobby Seal

A figure walks behind you Shadow walks behind you Figure walks behind you Shadow walks behind you We have a local lockdown where I live which means we can’t leave the county borough without good reason. Fortunately for me, as … Continue reading →

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