Category: Annabel Streets
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Walking with Annabel: her wonderful books on women walking
Expanding the moment Annabel Abbs wrote Windswept: Walking in the footsteps of remarkable women (Two Roads, 2021) about some famous and not so famous women who were serious walkers at times when that was unusual and often dangerous. (It’s back in the library before I took a photo, so another of her books I discuss…
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In Praise of Walking and 52 Ways To Walk
The importance of core control In Praise of Walking by Shane O’Mara, 52 Ways To Walk by Annabel Streets and Howard Jacobson’s The Dog’s Last Walk. Can you spot a theme here? Okay, the last is a joke but it was on my reading pile and I’d been enthusiastic about walking five or six kilometres…