Some time ago adventurer Alastair Humphreys interviewed fellow adventurers and asked them about their favorite books in their particular field of expertise. When it came to walking adventures, Alastair chose to interview Leon McCarron, who walked across Mongolia, China, and the Empty Quarter Desert Here are Leon McCarron’s five favorite adventure books.
1. Clear Waters Rising – Nicholas Crane: A wonderfully British adventure – Nick Crane sets off across Europe on foot, following mountains all the way, and carrying little more than an umbrella by way of kit
2. Of Walking in Ice – Werner Herzog: I only recently got hold of this – it’s out of print – but if you imagine a Werner Herzog film put to text (about him walking across the Alps in Winter to visit a dying mentor) then you can imagine what’s going on. Mental and brilliant.
3. Wanderlust – a history of Walking – Rebecca Solnit: A bit heavy going at times (for those of us not used to academic texts) but mostly it is an enjoyable and ridiculously well research compendium of walking
4. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien: I read this when I was a kid, and it’s responsible for my initial desires to walk long distances. Dissapointingly I’mve yet to do a trip with a horde of dwarves or elves’¦.
5. A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor: I didn’t want to put this in (it seemed far too obvious – I wanted to put in the slightly obscure journals of Lewis and Clark as they crossed America) but any walking list without Fermor is incomplete – probably the most poetic and wanderlust-enducing book ever written about walking.
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