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Walking the Hexagon: An Escape Around France on Foot
Terry Cudbird
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Description for Walking the Hexagon: An Escape Around France on Foot
Paperback. Num Pages: 279 pages, 40 b&w photographs plus maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; WSZC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
Why would a man retire from his job and take off on a unique 4,000-mile walk around France? What possessed him to wear out his sixty-year-old hips and knees when he could spend a comfortable retirement at home? In this fascinating book Terry Cudbird reveals the obsession which is long distance walking--the intoxicating freedom to go where you want, the escape from the complications and paraphernalia of everyday life, the unpredictable encounters. His itinerary covered the six sides of the French hexagon. In a year's walking he passed through the Pyrenees, the Languedoc, Provence, the Alps, the Jura, Alsace, Lorraine, ... Read more
Why would a man retire from his job and take off on a unique 4,000-mile walk around France? What possessed him to wear out his sixty-year-old hips and knees when he could spend a comfortable retirement at home? In this fascinating book Terry Cudbird reveals the obsession which is long distance walking--the intoxicating freedom to go where you want, the escape from the complications and paraphernalia of everyday life, the unpredictable encounters. His itinerary covered the six sides of the French hexagon. In a year's walking he passed through the Pyrenees, the Languedoc, Provence, the Alps, the Jura, Alsace, Lorraine, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Interlink Signal
Number of pages
279
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
279
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908493033
SKU
V9781908493033
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About Terry Cudbird
Terry Cudbird studied history at Cambridge and French History at University College London and in France. He has enjoyed long distance walking all his life. His website www.walkingaroundfrance.com describes his route in detail and has attracted much interest in the UK and abroad. This is his first book.
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