Recommend me a walking travel book that doesn't complain about feet!

Bryson (and even more so, his travel companion - Katz?) definitely do some whinging with their walking!

If the Lake District is your cup of tea (served with a bit of Grasmere gingerbread and Cumbrian rum butter), then you can't beat Wainwright!

Pleased to see Eric Newby's 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' recommended. It's a great read and he has a lovely style, very likeable. In fact, I'm going to re-read it myself!

Dervla Murphy - eight feet in the Andes is about her walking through Peru with her daughter and a mule.
A book called "tracks" by Robin ? (Can't remember the surname). She is a very hardcore traveller who walked across the Australian desert with a couple of camels.

Lavengro and The Romany Rye by George Borrow.

I loved Wild, it's a really good story that is about more than just the walk.

I love hiking and books about hiking but there's a lot I don't like, didn't like The Salt Path, not a fan of Bill Bryson, I prefer Levison's tv shows to his books (although they're not bad) and Dervla Murphy is ok.

One I really like is Ffyona Campbell's The Whole Story - about walking around the whole world - she does come across as a difficult/very complicated maybe even dislikeable character, but it's a good read.

My favourite though is another walking the PCT one (like Wild). It's a really positive story about two young people and their experience of trail life called 'Hikertrash' by Erin Miller. There are so many 'trail angels' that help people walking the PCT and it makes the book really interesting and allows it to focus just on the walk rather than having lots of story around it. It will make you want to walk the PCT afterwards though as it sounds like a magical experience!

I'm the opposite! I love good description of physical problems, what people had for breakfast etc.

Anything by Levison Wood.
Ditto Dervla Murphy and Laurie Lee
Travels with a Donkey in the December by Robert Louis Stevenson

I came on to recommend Clear Waters Rising by Nick Crane and anything by Tim Moore, but I've been beaten to it!

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Ive recently finished reading this and loved it.
Strangely though I’m not mad on Vertigo by him.

Eric Newby, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.

It's been a while since I read this, and it is possible that he does mention his feet, but this is such an amusing, self-deprecating, entertaining book that it's still very worthwhile.

WG Sebald, The Rings of Saturn.
It sounds like scifi or fantasy, but it isn't; it's essentially a walk book through East Anglia full of fascinating meanders. I'm pretty sure there are no feet mentioned.

Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways is great too.

I love Rory Stewart’s walking books - The Places In Between (across Afghanistan) and The Marches (the Scottish Borders, partly with his father).

Great question. And agree with 'Wild' fans.

I read and enjoyed Clear Waters Rising by Nick Crane years ago, before he did TV. I've always meant to re-read it. Anyone out there want to encourage me or the OP?

Also, this is a bit left-field, but try Elizabeth von Arnim's 'Elizabeth's Adventures in Rugen'. The walks described are short and intermittent, but in those days (1901, Prussia) women didn't really do long treks. However, it's a great book with superb poetic descriptions AND it's funny.

I enjoyed Cheryl Strayed's book, but I seem to remember her complaining that her boots hurt her feet.

I think it was Tim Moore who wrote about cycling the Tour de France route which I enjoyed. Going to look up his walking book now!

Anna McNuff book the Pants of Perspective is more about her run / walking across New Zealand but I really enjoyed it and went on to read her other books cycling across S America and running bare foot through GB.

I met her once, and she said she was always astounded how many people said “Dervla with a bike” as she felt she’d walked more than she’d cycled!

Alistair Humphreys has done a nice hommage to this where he retraces Lee’s steps in modern day Spain. To make it a proper challenge he denies himself much money and forces himself to earn his keep along the way by playing the violin - which he has only just learned. It’s an interesting concept and I admired the way he was willing to make himself very very uncomfortable.
« My Midsummer Morning. »

There is also « Tracks, » the story of the woman who walked across Australia with camels - it was made into a film about a decade ago but I haven’t read the book yet, it’s been on my TBR for years…

Travels With My Donkey - Tim Moore takes a donkey on the Camino Santiago (ETA - i see someone else has this with different titles. Weird.)
Long Road From Jarrow - Stuart Maconie

Love those two

haha came back to edit to say As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - you go for a hike and end up fighting in the Spanish Civil war, as you do - only to see the poster above did that while i was writing.

Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.

I can't honestly rememer if he mentions his feet, but anyway the book is utterly charming. He undertook this journey in the 1930s, and when he wrote it in the 1960s he says it was already a vanished way of life due to the change in roads and traffic. He walked, he slept under hedges, he earnt some money here and there, he walked some more.

Agree completely about The Path of Peace. I did finish it but by then I could have happily finished off the author himself too with my own bare hands. He was such a whinger and his interspersing of his own luxury hotel stays and his daughter's wedding with the awful reality of what WWI must have been like just made it worse.
Phew, glad I got that off my chest. Agree too that PLF's writing is wonderful and am interested to hear other posters' recommendations.

If nothing else, this book will make you laugh out loud and enjoy the journey at the same time -

Spanish Steps by Tim Moore. About travelling the Camino in Spain with a donkey named Shinto. Absolutely delightful read, full of fun, facts, fellow pilgrims and very entertaining. Don't remember much about feet, hooves maybe? 😊

The US title of the book is “Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago