renewed © 1972 by M. D. Herter Norton. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Extract from Underland copyright by Robert Macfarlane, copyright © 2019, published by Hamish Hamilton, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates (USA) and Penguin Random House (UK). Extract from Wanderlust: A History of Walking, copyright © 2000 by Rebecca Solnit. Reprinted by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved (US); and reprinted by permission of Granta Books (UK). Extract from Thinking on My Feet, copyright © 2018 by Kate Humble, reprinted by permission of Octopus Publishing Group. Extract from The Field of the Star by Nicholas Luard (Penguin Classics 1999), reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Limited.
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renewed © 1972 by M. D. Herter Norton. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Extract from Underland copyright by Robert Macfarlane, copyright © 2019, published by Hamish Hamilton, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates (USA) and Penguin Random House (UK). Extract from Wanderlust: A History of Walking, copyright © 2000 by Rebecca Solnit. Reprinted by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved (US); and reprinted by permission of Granta Books (UK). Extract from Thinking on My Feet, copyright © 2018 by Kate Humble, reprinted by permission of Octopus Publishing Group. Extract from The Field of the Star by Nicholas Luard (Penguin Classics 1999), reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Limited.
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