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Carregando... Walking Home: Great British Adventures... and Other Ramblesde Clare Balding
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is not quite my usual read but I liked the idea of Clare Balding 'walking home' and I was expecting a fairly long distance trip full of anecdotes. What I got was chapters telling of different walks that she had done with various people and groups for her radio programme, Ramblings, interspersed with snippets about a walk that she did with her family near to her family home. A slightly mixed bag for me as there were some endearing and interesting segments and some that appealed less, but overall this is a calm, pleasant read, written in a friendly manner. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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'Why would you walk without a dog or a pitchfork?' - Clare's father 'I'm not sure I'd really be interested in a walk unless it was local. I mean why would you want to go to Scotland when you can have this?' - Clare's brother 'Ramblers have all that kit. Those stupid socks and poles. Then when I tell them that they're not on the footpath they get aggressive' - Clare's mother In Clare Balding's family, walking just took too long - she galloped through the countryside and she galloped through life. There was certainly no time to get to know Britain beyond its racecourses. Then, in 1999, Clare took a call out of the blue from a BBC producer looking for a presenter for a new radio series. 'Do you walk?' she asked. 'Well, I walk the dog . . . ' That series,Ramblings,is still going strong - and Clare's caught the walking bug. Since then she's covered fifteen hundred miles of footpaths, from the Pennine Way to the South West Coastal Path. She's tackled apocalyptic thunderstorms, struggled with blisters and a twisted ankle, and seduced fans of 'erotic radio' by getting changed in a bus stop. She's walked with historians, geologists, twitchers, botanists and poets, who've told her things they never thought they would reveal. Now she wants her family to share some of that pleasure. Her and her brother Andrew are determined to conquer the Wayfarer's Walk, a route which runs past their family stables Kingsclere. What could possibly go wrong? This is a story of paths and people, of discovering the glories of Britain and Ireland, and of (mis)adventures with the family. Along the way there are charming diversions and life-changing rambles, including her take on the 2012 Olympics. And, finally, this is Clare's story of Walking Home. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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It is still going strong all these years later and has clocked up a huge 36 series so far. She has managed to walk 1500 miles along footpaths that are well-known paths like the Pennine Way to ones that are local and special to the people that accompany her on the perambulations. There have been blisters, soakings, minor injuries and one moment when walking with a ranger who walked at twice her pace though she was going to die!
Whilst her walks have taken her all over the country, in all weathers, the thing that makes this series work so well is the people that she meets on the walks. There have been choirs, novelists, poets, couples, small groups who are using the medical elements of walking to cope with all sorts of issues from bereavement to those recovering from mental health issues. She has collected litter with David Sedaris and walked backwards and barefoot, but never naked. Clare is accompanied by Lucy and her furry microphone
Woven into the tales of other places, are stories of family life and her partnership with Alice and her time spent presenting the Olympics and other sporting events. Clare and her brother's intention to finally tackle the Wayfarer's Walk that is close to the place she grew up. This is not a taxing read, rather an entertaining and in parts a very very funny stroll through some beautiful countryside and a passing glimpse into people's lives and how and why they walk. ( )