FIVE HUNDREAD MILE WALKI

By Mark Wallington

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099523906
• ISBN13: 9780099523901
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.6" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Oh to have a dog like Boogie!!!

"Walkies" is the first of the three-book set of the author's hikes around England with his unusual dog Boogie. This is the best book of the series and well worth the read. At the time of the Falklands War, the author decided to hike 500 miles around the southwest coast of Britain. To say the least, he knows absolutely nothing about hiking and camping outdoors, but he knows, first and foremost, he must take a dog ? Boogie in this case, who could care less. They are both unsuited and inexperienced for a long hike, but they both survive in a comical excursion that will you leave laughing to the very end. What makes the book so enjoyable was the dog ? Boogie. This is a dog who never knows a stranger. He goes for the hike despite knowing his master is a total fool for undertaking such endeavor. His master may go without food, but Boogie never goes without. Read about their walkies around the southwest coast of England. You will learn a lot about travel but also much about Boogie.

500 Mile Walkies Provides 500 Laughs

If you enjoy armchair travel and more specifically armchair long distance walking, then this should be the book for you. If in addition, you enjoy laughing out loud or at least snorting appreciatively, then this is certainly the book for you. Mark Wallington has a keen sense of the ridiculous and with his canine companion Boogie, sets out to tackle the South West Coast Path covering much of Devon and Cornwall in England. Their encounters and obstacles and joys are recorded with such humour that this book is diffcult to put down and in many ways reminds me of the writing of Bill Bryson. Do they survive and make the end of the trail - well you'll just have to get hold of the book to find out!