by Belloc · Cluster: Travel Writing · Pilgrimage · Landscape
Abstract
A familiar essay prefacing a walkers’ anthology, arguing that walking is the truest way to know a landscape and oneself, and a symbol of all adventure and desire. Belloc celebrates the English inn, mocks the motorist and the enemies of inns, and closes on the idea that the greatest walking of all is ‘walking away.‘
Connections
Forms & Genres: Essay, Travel Writing, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Nature, Wonder, Nature vs Civilization, Anti-Industrialism, Faith, The Spirit of Romance, Economics Motifs: Road, Journey, Inn Tavern, Nature, Home Settings: Rural England, Inn Characters: Hilaire Belloc Archetypes: Pilgrim Topoi: Open Road Homecoming, Beatus Ille (Happy the Man Rural Retreat)