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Walking Home

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Description for Walking Home Paperback. One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way, a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back. However, he resolved to tackle it back to front, walking home towards the Yorkshire village where he was born, travelling as a modern troubadour, without a penny in his pockets. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.

One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back. However, he resolved to tackle it back to front, walking home towards the Yorkshire village where he was born, travelling as a 'modern troubadour', without a penny in his pockets and singing for his supper with poetry readings in village halls, churches, pubs and living rooms.

Walking Home
describes his extraordinary, yet ordinary, journey of human endeavour, unexpected kindnesses and terrible blisters.... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571249893
SKU
V9780571249893
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published ten collections of poetry, including Selected Poems (2001), Seeing Stars (2010), his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007) and more recently The Death of King Arthur (2012). A broadcaster ... Read more

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