Walking and writing have always gone together, and this collection of essays, travelogues, and memoirs makes the point admirably. Included here are observations by Henry David Thoreau ("Through Fields of Snow"), Virginia Woolf ("Between Tea and Dinner"), Franz Kafka ("In a Sudden Access of Restlessness"), and Rebecca Solnit ("I Walk for Thoughts, Experiences, Arrivals"). Here too are selections by Mark Twain, John Muir, Soren Kierkegaard, Thomas De Quincey, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, James Boswell, George Sand, Will Self, and Robert Louis Stevenson.