"Our Weekend Walk" is a sweet adventure story about a family who likes to explore the great outdoors in their local forest on Canada’s Pacific Coast. The book captures the majesty of the natural world and features a fun narrative, highlighting the discoveries a child makes along the trail. This book is a must-have for preschool and kindergarten children and their families who like to explore the great outdoors. Against the backdrop of a lush local forest, children learn about language sounds through rhyming word groups such as car, jar, and star. It ́s the perfect combination for encouraging reading and writing success and a love of the natural world.
For many years Ken Weber has been educating visitors and natives alike about the historical and natural wonders of the Ocean State. The 40 walks and gentle hikes he has chosen for this completely updated third edition travel the best terrain the state has to offer, both urban and rural. Here you'll find: the 77-mile North South Trail, which spans the state from the Massachusetts border to the ocean; the cliffs of Block Island; the beaches of Ninigret and Napatree; the quiet woods and fields of the northwestern corner; the wildlife sanctuaries and islands of Narragansett Bay; and the mansions of Cliff Walk in Newport. The walks range from three to nine miles in length, from gentle strolls to more challenging day hikes. Each chapter includes directions to the trailhead, a detailed map, a complete description of the route, and natural and historic highlights you should see along the way.
One morning in 2011, Libby DeLana stepped outside her New England home for a walk. She did the same thing the next day, and the next. It became a daily habit that has culminated in her walking over 25,000 miles - the equivalent of the earth's circumference. In Do Walk, Libby shares the transformative nature of this simple yet powerful practice. She reveals how walking each day provides the time and space to reconnect with the world around us; process thoughts; improve our physical wellbeing; and unlock creativity. It is the ultimate navigational tool that helps us to see who we are - beyond titles and labels, and where we want to go. With stunning photography, this inspiring and reflective guide is an invitation to step outside, and see where the path takes us.
New York Times bestselling author Joan Anderson gives women practical advice and inspiration for building creative, independent, and fulfilling lives through discovering who they truly are and who they can be. Like Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, Joan Anderson’s bestselling A Year by the Sea revealed a far larger than expected constituency, in the form of thousands of women struggling to realize their full potential. After years of focusing on the needs of others as a wife and mother, Anderson devoted a year to rediscovering herself and reinvigorating her dreams. The questions she asked herself and the insights she gained became the core of the popular weekend workshops Anderson developed to help women figure out how—after being all things to all people—they can finally become what they need to be for themselves. A Weekend to Change Your Life brings Anderson’s techniques to women everywhere, providing a step-by-step path readers can follow at their own pace. Drawing on her own life and on the experiences of the women she meets at her workshops, Anderson shows women how to move beyond the roles they play in relationship to others and reclaim their individuality. Through illustrations and gentle instruction, she illuminates the rewards of nurturing long-neglected talents, revitalizing plans sacrificed to the demands of family life, and redefining oneself by embracing new possibilities. Wake Up, Sister. It’s Your Turn A full life requires cultivation. The minute we take our hands off the plow, fail to reseed, forget to fertilize, we’ve lost our crop. And yet, most women I know, while in the service of some greater good have let their very lives wilt on the vine. Having been taught the fine art of accommodation, most of us have developed a knack for selfless behavior. We’ve dulled our personal lives while propping up everyone else’s, and we’re no longer able even to imagine having any sort of adventure, romance, meaning, or purpose for ourselves. In short, we’ve gotten way off track and taken the wrong road to self-satisfaction, foolishly thinking that after all of the doing, giving, trying, and overworking someone will offer us a reward. But Prince Charming was a bad joke and all the fairy godmothers are dead. Instead of happy ever after, most of us end up with the ache. We wake up each day with an inner gnawing, a hunger for more, a craving for an overhaul, but we are too listless, tired, or depressed to do anything about it. We have spent the greater part of our lives pouring ourselves out like a pitcher. No wonder we feel so empty. But we lack the necessary energy, a helpful roadmap, and any type of guidance and support. Well, it’s time to change all of that. —From A Weekend to Change Your Life
This wooded and watery corner of New England has become, in the latter part of this century, a veritable paradise of recreational opportunities, offering boating, beaching, birding, and - unknown to many before Ken Weber's books came on the scene - wonderful walking. Through his columns in the "Providence Journal" and his books, including the recently published companion volume to this one, "More Walks and Rambles in Rhode Island," Ken has educated Rhode Islanders to the joys of this gentle sport. This second edition has been thoroughly updated by the author - almost half the walks have been substantially revised. Each of the 40 walks includes a map, hiking times and distances, an overview of the special features of the walk and its level of difficulty, directions on getting to the trailhead, and a two - to three-page description. There is also tremendous diversity to these 40 outings: one can choose from beach walks, woods walks, wetlands walks, and even island walks. Many of them, moreover, are suitable for families with children.
25 walks in and around Glasgow with colour maps and stunning photography. Greenock Cut, Windy Hill, Clyde Muirshall Park, Balloch Castle Country Park, Castle Semple Loch and Parkhill Wood, Lang Craigs, Duncryne near Loch Lomond, Dams to Darnley Country Park, Whitelee Windfarm, Earl's Seat from Glengoyne Distillery, Mugdock Country Park, Pollock Country Park, River Kelvin, The Clyde, Medieval Glasgow, The Necropolis, Cathkin Braes, Campsie Glen, Dungoil in the Campsies, Spectacle E'e Falls, Calderglen, Bar Hill near Kilsyth, Calderglen, Chatelherault Country Park, Strathclyde Country Park, Falls of Clyde, New Lanark and Tinto.
25 walks in and around Edinburgh with colour maps and stunning photography. The Forth Bridge and Dalmeny Estate, Harlaw Reservoir, Cammo Estate, River Almond and Cramond, Corstorphine Hill, Castlelaw Hill, Wester and Easter Craiglockhart Hills, Water of Leith and Union Canal, Torduff Water, Swanston and the foothills of the Pentlands, Water of Leith, Colinton and Craiglockhart Dells, Blackford Hill and the Braid Hills, Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill, Water of Leith, Dean Bridge to Leith, Arthur's Seat and Holyrood Park, Roslin Glen, Gladhouse Reservoir, Moorfoot Hills, Dalkieth Country Park, Newhailes near Musselburgh, Musselburgh and Levenhall Links, Carberry Hill, Vogrie Country Park, Seton Collegiate Church and Sands, Gosford Estate, Aberlady Bay and Gullane Point.
25 walks in and around Stirling and Falkirk with colour maps and stunning photography. Downie¿s Loup, Gargunnock Doune castle and River Teith, Lewis Hill and North Third Reservoir, Darn Road and Glen Road, Bridge of Allan and Dunblane, Airthrey Loch and Hermitage Wood, Wallace Monument and Abbey Craig, Dumya,t Plean Country Park, The Falkirk Wheel and Antonine Wal,l Gartmorn Dam, Airth Pineapple, Callendar House and Park, The Helix Park and Kelpies, Muiravonside Country Park, Dollar Glen, Culross, River Avon and Union Canal, Beecraigs and Cockleroy, Linlithgow Loch and the Grange, Bo¿ness Foreshore and Kinneil House, Rumbling Bridge, Binny Craig, Blackness Castle, Almondell and Calderwood Country Park, Vane Hill and Loch Leven
This “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer) “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us. Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.
