Lyrical
5 stars
I really enjoyed this. I especially enjoyed the Minch featuring quite heavily. Part of me likes to imagine some ancient lineage to that area - that's my delusion and I'm sticking to it.
Didn't expect the trip to Palestine or Tibet but they were well done. An expertly written book with some amazing passages that were almost poetic.
The book focuses on walking, the land, and the history both of those things connect you to. Parts of it reminded me of Tolkien's writing style.
This feels like a wintery book to be read in low light, not in summer with sunlight streaming through the window.
"For him, as for so many other people, the mind was a landscape of a kind and walking a means of crossing it."