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

[Threeforks]

Inspired a bit by Salt Path discussion. After yet another book with a great premise (The Path of Peace, about walking the route of the WW1 Western Front) that I've abandoned because of too much detail about the author's blisters and what feels like pages of description of feeling tired/wet/cold. It's hardly timeless prose, why do they do this?

Patrick Leigh Fermor is my gold standard at the moment. He was a complete arse by all accounts, but his writing is lyrical and wonderful and he doesn't go on his ailments or tedious logistics all the time. Who else have you found that writes like this - descriptive, interesting, and minimal navel gazing?

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

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

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

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!

Lavengro and The Romany Rye by George Borrow.

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.

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!

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!

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