Walking away /
by Armitage, Simon [author.].
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BookPublisher: London : Faber and Faber, 2015Description: 304 pages : illustrations.ISBN: 9780571298358 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 914.23 ARMSubject(s): Armitage, Simon, 1963- -- Travel -- England -- West Country | Travel and Tourism | Travel and Tourism | West Country (England) -- Description and travelSummary: Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining 'Walking Home', Simon Armitage has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home. In 'Walking Away', he swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finish.
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| 914.142 TUR Walking Loch Lomond and the Trossachs | 914.1504 HAW Round Ireland with a fridge | 914.225 HID The hidden places of Sussex | 914.23 ARM Walking away / | 914.234 GRE Guernsey: Alderney, Sark & Herm | 914.245 ROY 50 walks in Shropshire: 50 walks of 2-10 miles | 914.2511 GER Peak District |
Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining 'Walking Home', Simon Armitage has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home. In 'Walking Away', he swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finish.
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