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Originally Posted by issybird
Eric Newby is excellent; I've read most of him including his non-travel memoirs about his experiences as a POW and his early job in the fashion industry. My own favorite book about a long walk and probably my favorite travel book of all time is Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts.
I've started A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy Egan. I like pilgrimage stories, which tend to involve a lot of walking; I just wish there were more non-Christian pilgrimage accounts out there. There are some about the Shikoku pilgrimage in Japan but beyond that they're few on the ground, especially in digital. I am bored reading about the Camino de Santiago.
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I'm fond of the literary pilgrimage subgenre, walks inspired by travel writing which discuss both the past work and their present travels.
On the Narrow Road to the Deep North by Lesley Downer is the reason I own a number of translations of Matsuo Basho's classic.