The Best Walking Books 2024

1. Hiking Companion - Paperback

Drawing from his personal experience hiking major trails throughout North America, Robbins offers an overview of the hiking experience in various terrains. Illustrations. Strap on your boots and get out on the trail! Drawing from personal experience, Michael W. Robbins describes what to expect when hiking in various terrains -- from forests to fields and lake edges to mountains. Informative and fun, The Hiking Companion combines tips for trip planning, equipment, navigation, and safety with exciting stories of once-in-a-lifetime adventures. Whether you're an expert hiker or setting out on your first overnighter, this inspiring guide is full of practical advice to make your next outing a success.

Strap on your boots and get out on the trail! Drawing from personal experience, Michael W. Robbins describes what to expect when hiking in various terrains — from forests to fields and lake edges to mountains. Informative and fun, The Hiking Companion combines tips for trip planning, equipment, navigation, and safety with exciting stories of once-in-a-lifetime adventures. Whether you’re an expert hiker or setting out on your first overnighter, this inspiring guide is full of practical advice to make your next outing a success.

2. Brunetti's Venice: Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon's internationally best-selling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice's churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos In Brunetti's Venice , tourists and armchair travelers follow in the footsteps of Brunetti as he traverses the city he knows and loves. With his acute eye for change in his native city, his fascination with the past, his ear for language and his passion for food and drink, and his familiarity with the dark realities of crime and corruption, Brunetti is the perfect companion for any walk across La Serenissima. Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six regions of Venice as well as the lagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and through campi. Important locations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from the novels. This is a must-have companion book for any lover of Donna Leon's wonderful mysteries.

Brunetti's Venice : Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective, Used [Paperback]

3. Transcontinental Pedestrians, Used [Paperback]

In the annals of Canadian folklore, few stories are as ripe with adventure and the spirit of the times as that of the three young Cape Bretoners who, on a dare and a bet, set out from North Sydney, Nova Scotia to walk across North America and back within a year. It was winter 1906. And although all eventually failed the madcap adventure, one of the men, John Hugh Gillis, did reach Vancouver, making him the very first to walk across Canada from coast to coast. Using the diary of his father-in-law, who joined the adventure midway, George Hart tells the story of this remarkable and long-forgotten odyssey. Complete with newspaper accounts and original photos of the towns and cities along the way, Transcontinental Pedestrians offers snapshots of a new country in a new century. As historian Jonathan Vance notes in his introduction, John A. Macdonald "would have approved of the symbolism of walking from one side of the continent to the other along the iron rails." Transcontinental Pedestrians is a compelling story of character, endurance, friendship, betrayal and tragedy. It is also the story of a truly great athlete, the charismatic John Hugh Gillis, whose brilliant Olympic-bound career was tragically cut short by tuberculosis. It is fitting that one hundred years after his walk across Canada, the young man from Cape Breton, dubbed the "Western Giant" by the press, was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame. With an introduction by Dr. Jonathan Vance , a cultural and military historian at the University of Western Ontario. He provides a description of the country in 1906 that effectively set the stage for the remainder of the book. In a reference to Canada's first prime minister Vance noted: "Sir John A. Macdonald would have approved the symbolism of walking from one side of the continent to the other along the iron rails he fought so hard to build."

Transcontinental Pedestrians, Used [Paperback]

4. Women' s Complete Guide to Walking [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This is the ultimate guide for women who want to improve their health and fitness by getting into walking. Packed with expert advice from former Olympian Jeff Galloway and his wife Barbara, it deals with everything from getting started to keeping motivated, and from improving techniques to healthy eating. Women's Complete Guide to Walking also provides practical information on issues that are specific to women - correct bra fitting, overcoming chaffing, exercise and pregnancy, PMS and exercise, osteoporosis, and menopause. It also presents hints and tips on fat-burning, day-to-day schedules to get you into shape, and inspirational stories of women who have worked through major challenges in their lives, empowered by exercise.

Marathon FAQ : Galloway's Book on the 100 Most Frequently Asked Questions in Running, Used [Paperback]

5. The Best of Britain's Countryside: The Heart of England and Wales : A Driving and Walking Itinerary (The Two-Week Traveler Series) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The Best of Britain's Countryside: The Heart of England and Wales : A Driving and Walking Itinerary (The Two-Week Traveler Series) by Gwen North; Bill North

The Best of Britain's Countryside: The Heart of England and Wales : A Driving and Walking Itinerary (The Two-Week Traveler Series) [Paperback - Used]

6. Dr. James M. Rippe's Complete Book of Fitness Walking, Used [Paperback]

The world's leading expert on walking for fitness has written the most comprehensive book available. Special advice on walking for women, for people over fifty, for injury and cardiac rehabilitation, for pregnant women--plus walking gear, preventing injury, motivation, stretching, hiking, nutrition and more!

Dr. James M. Rippe's Complete Book of Fitness Walking, Used [Paperback]

7. Portland Hill Walks: Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Portland Hill Walks features twenty-four miniature adventures stocked with stunning views, hidden stairways, leafy byways, urban forests, and places to sit, eat, and soak in the local scene. The revised and updated edition offers five new walks in addition to the well-loved classics, with new contemporary and historical photos and easier-to-follow directions. Whether you feel like meandering through old streetcar neighborhoods or climbing a lava dome, there is a hill walk for every mood. New walks take you up to Willamette Stone State Park, across the St. Johns Bridge, down to the South Waterfront (with a ride on the aerial tram), along a stream in Gresham, and up Mounts Talbert and Scott. Portland is a walking city, and Portland Hill Walks will inspire you to enjoy it to its fullest!

Portland Hill Walks : Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods, Used [Paperback]

8. Hiking the North Cascades : A Gt, Used [Paperback]

Dream It Concise descriptions and detailed maps for more than 100 easy-to-follow trails across the North Cascades that allow hikers of all levels to enjoy mountaintop views, hidden waterfalls, and remote forests. Plan it Hiking the North Cascades provides the latest information to plan your outdoor adventure. Iconic and lesser-known hikes from Mount Pisgah in the southwest to Fourth Connecticut Lake on the Canadian border, Photos, GPS-generated maps, detailed trail descriptions, and trailhead GPS, Insightful hike overviews, including details on distance, difficulty, canine compatibility, and options to extend your hike or make it more kid friendly, Do It A combination of soaring geology, tumbling waters, and deep forests have led to a plethora of great hiking trails in the North Cascades. Hikes suited to every ability, Discover swimming holes, spectacular views, and more, Meet your local experts Veteran author and backcountry explorer Erik Molvar is the author of more than a dozen FalconGuides for such places as Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Olympic National Park, and Colorado's Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness. He lives in Laramie, Wyoming. Let Falcon Be Your Guide Falcon is the premier publisher of outdoor recreation guidebooks in North America. Written by and for outdoor enthusiasts, these guides-chock-full of photos and maps-not only provide you with the skills you need but also take you along with our authoritative local experts on these experiences of a lifetime. Book jacket.

Hiking the North Cascades : A Gt, Used [Paperback]

9. Walk Off Weight Journal Your Daily Push to Permanent Weight Loss 3x As Fast! [Spiral-bound - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Walking is America's #1 form of exercise--and with good reason. It's easy, cheap, and can be done anywhere. Now, Prevention magazine takes fun, low-impact walking to the next level with a new 8-week program that will help you lose 3 times more weight--and keep it off. Designed by certified fitness trainer Michele Stanten, the program jump-starts weight loss with core and lowerbody strength exercises as well as special walking routines, including interval walks, which research shows burn calories twice as fast as regular walking. Women who tried the program for 8 weeks: - lost up to 222/3 pounds and 1234 inches - lowered their blood pressure and blood glucose levels - had less back and joint pain - improved their posture, balance, flexibility, and boosted their energy Paired with a delicious, well-balanced meal plan and easy strength-training exercises, Walk Off Weight also helps you pick out the perfect walking sneakers and gives you technique tips to increase your speed and avoid soreness or injury.

Walk Off Weight Journal Your Daily Push to Permanent Weight Loss 3x As Fast!, Used [Spiral-bound]

10. New Zealand - The Great Walks: Includes Auckland and Wellington City Guides [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. New Zealand is a wilderness paradise, full of beautiful landscapes. The county is criss-crossed by tracks, of which nine have been designated 'great walks' by the Department of Conservation. These are the country's premier hiking trails and each route takes about 3-5 days to walk.

New Zealand : The Great Walks, Used [Paperback]