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Light-hearted personal account of the author's record-breaking 5,000 mile walk round the cost of Britain
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I have read Helen Krasner's book twice and I'm sure I shall read it again. Yet it isn't entirely easy to describe what makes it so well worth reading. Although Helen claims to be an ordinary person, doing something which to her, while she was doing it, became quite an ordinary thing to do, her way of being ordinary is so extraordinary that it makes her book, and her walk, something very different and special.
Why did she walk round the island of Britain? One doesn't really know, at the end. But what is certain is that she got a great deal out of it, and much of what she got out of it , she has been able to pass on to the reader. Above all this is a book about people; the innumerable people she met in the course of her journey; most of them kind and hospitable, a few impressive, one or two more or less mad. And about places - two of the most interesting to Helen, and to us, are the beautiful North West coast of Scotland - she makes one determined to go there - and Sellafield nuclear power station. The power station not so much for itself, as for the effect it has on the people who live and work in the area, none of whom appear able to consider it objectively. If only this book could have been well illustrated with good photographs, it could have been very successful indeed. As it is, it's there, you can buy it, and after all, the text is the important thing. Helen Krasner is not just a long-distance walker - she is also the author of a fascinating book.
Why did she walk round the island of Britain? One doesn't really know, at the end. But what is certain is that she got a great deal out of it, and much of what she got out of it , she has been able to pass on to the reader. Above all this is a book about people; the innumerable people she met in the course of her journey; most of them kind and hospitable, a few impressive, one or two more or less mad. And about places - two of the most interesting to Helen, and to us, are the beautiful North West coast of Scotland - she makes one determined to go there - and Sellafield nuclear power station. The power station not so much for itself, as for the effect it has on the people who live and work in the area, none of whom appear able to consider it objectively. If only this book could have been well illustrated with good photographs, it could have been very successful indeed. As it is, it's there, you can buy it, and after all, the text is the important thing. Helen Krasner is not just a long-distance walker - she is also the author of a fascinating book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book makes a refreshing change from all those well planned, well researched travel books that are ultimately boring. This is how it would be for the likes of you and me. A very readable and interesting account that's often quite funny, for this is a walk for fun, not to beat a record, or raise money for charity. Helen's encounters are always worth reading, especially those with other coastal walkers, like the one who tells her what "a bitch" the Mull of Kintyre had proved, but is nonetheless horrified that she decides she'll skip it then! Not in the class of Bill Bryson, obviously, but still fun.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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When I first read this book I enjoyed it so much that I immediately bought five more for friends who, I was sure, would enjoy it too. I was right, but each of them seemed to enjoy it in a different way. One, for instance, took several weeks to read it because she found it relaxing to read a few pages in bed before turning the light out. Another commented on the quality of the writing - for some reason, she seemed to think that someone who could walk around the coast of Great Britain couldn't possibly have a good writing style! Another said that she found it inspiring, and it made her want to do something similar - but she wouldn't fancy camping and sleeping in barns.
I enjoyed the matter-of-fact way in which the author apparently dealt with all the odd things and people that she encountered along the way. She might be small - she mentions that people found it hard to believe that somebody her size could walk so far with an enormous rucksack - but she was completely indomitable! Nothing seemed to put her off.
And I think that the thing I liked most about it was the fact that she was not, and is not trying to impress anybody with her amazing achievement: that much is clear from the way it is written. She just decided that she would like to walk around the coast of her native island, and went ahead and did it - not to get into the record books, not even to raise money for good causes, but simply because that's what she wanted to do.
If this book doesn't inspire you to think that perhaps you should just get up and do that mad thing you've always dreamt of doing, then I'm afraid you'll never do it. But read the book anyway - it's jolly good entertainment.
I enjoyed the matter-of-fact way in which the author apparently dealt with all the odd things and people that she encountered along the way. She might be small - she mentions that people found it hard to believe that somebody her size could walk so far with an enormous rucksack - but she was completely indomitable! Nothing seemed to put her off.
And I think that the thing I liked most about it was the fact that she was not, and is not trying to impress anybody with her amazing achievement: that much is clear from the way it is written. She just decided that she would like to walk around the coast of her native island, and went ahead and did it - not to get into the record books, not even to raise money for good causes, but simply because that's what she wanted to do.
If this book doesn't inspire you to think that perhaps you should just get up and do that mad thing you've always dreamt of doing, then I'm afraid you'll never do it. But read the book anyway - it's jolly good entertainment.
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It does what it says on the tin
Having read quite a few of this sort of book I thought it might be just like the others. However, as it says on the cover this is quite simply 'an account of a walk'
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Published on 25 Aug 2009 by Occasional reader
Interesting, honest and fun
Very entertaining and easy to read. A very honest account of an idea that became a mini adventure.
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Published on 2 Jun 2008 by S. Nicholson
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