• The Best Hiking Memoirs - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
  • The Best Hiking Memoirs - A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • The Best Hiking Memoirs - The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
  • The Best Hiking Memoirs - The Rings of Saturn by W.G Sebald
  • The Best Hiking Memoirs - The Salt Path: A Memoir by Raynor Winn

The Best Hiking Memoirs, recommended by Gail Simmons

Accounts of journeys on foot capture the imagination; partly this is a function of the satisfaction of following a linear journey from start to finish, and partly it is a quality inherent to walking itself—a freeing of the mind. Gail Simmons, who follows an old English pilgrimage route in her book Between the Chalk and the Sea, selects five hiking memoirs that celebrate the liberation that comes from putting one foot after another.