Travellers' Walk with Duncan Minshull: Globetrotting: Writers Walk The World

Friday 23 May, 11am at Darley Park, DE22 1DA

*Sorry but no dogs!

‘There was nowhere to go but everywhere’  - Jack Kerouac 

Using these words of Jack Kerouac as inspiration, Duncan will be taking festival guests on a ninety minute stroll through the lovely environs of Darley Park. En route, he will be reading extracts from Globetrotting, as well as asking his fellow footers why and how do they go walking. Because we are all walking these days, aren’t we? Avanti, then!

Duncan Minshull is a former producer at BBC Radio, and now a writer and publisher of various books on the subject of walking, which examine why and how we walk, as much as where do we go walking. His most recent work, 'GLOBETROTTING: Writers Walk The World', celebrates that group of classic and current writer-walkers who have traversed parts of our seven continents in memorable and sometimes singular fashion; readers follow in the footsteps of the likes of Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and DH Lawrence, also Rachel Carson, Helen Garner and William Boyd. Footsteps from the Antarctic wastes to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.. 

The event starts in Darley Park - meet at Little Darley pub/café, adjacent to Darley Park car park (village centre) from 10.45am.