The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers, credited to Hilaire Belloc, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers by Hilaire Belloc. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers This 1911 anthology is a collection of musings on the pleasures, challenges, and experience of walking. It features some famous authors (Thoreau, Dickens, Whitman, etc.) and others who are less well known. The works include essays, excerpts from fictional works, and first-person accounts of adventures had while walking. The collection was compiled by Hilaire Belloc, a Franco-English writer, many of whose books have been recorded for Librivox. - Summary by Verla Viera

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers
• Author credits: Hilaire Belloc
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 5:45:35

Catalogue topics

• walking
• anthologies

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 21:27
2. 01 - Walking an Antidote to City Poison; On Going a Journey — 28:59
3. 02 - The Bishop of Salisbury’s Horse; A Strolling Pedlar; A Stout Pedestrian; Lake Scenery — 22:27
4. 03 - Walking, and the Wild, Part 1 — 25:06
5. 04 - Walking, and the Wild, Part 2 — 23:33
6. 05 - Walking, and the Wild, Part 3 — 23:52
7. 06 - A Young Tramp — 10:35
8. 07 - De Quincey leads the Simple Life — 7:06
9. 08 - A Resolution — 18:52
10. 09 - The Snowdon Ranger — 17:00
11. 10 - Song of the Open Road — 19:31
12. 11 - Walking Tours; Sylvanus Urban discovers a Good Brew — 23:35
13. 12 - Minchmoor — 22:59
14. 13 - In Praise of Walking, Part 1 — 21:18
15. 14 - In Praise of Walking, Part 2 — 23:36
16. 15 - The Exhilarations of the Road — 35:39

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