Joys of the Road: A Little Anthology in Praise of Walking

This book is a collection of the works of various authors on walking, compiled by Waldo Ralph Browne, an American editor, author, and composer and published in 1911. For example, here you can find the work Walking Tours by Lewis Stevenson, where he describes the pleasures of an idle walk through the country and the even more wonderful pleasures that come after - sitting by the fire, enjoying the "journey to the Land of Thought." Stevenson was a noted writer during his lifetime and has remained an important part of the literary canon. This essay highlights his lesser known skills as a travel writer. Or you can find here Henry David Thoreau's “Walk”, which also has an autobiographical side to Henry David Thoreau and reflects the author's personal experience. In more than ten years of walking, Thoreau continued to observe nature, to organize his thoughts, and to ponder how best to express his lecture; his diary shows what elements of his daily life influenced his views on the environment and motivated him to write it.