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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. Read article on The Guardian.
I loved this book. A middle age couple lose everything in a complicated investment deal and are homeless. They had lived a simple life on a farm in Wales. Then they find out the husband has a degenerative disease. No money, bad health. So what do they do? They hike the 630 mile South West Coast path that goes from Minehead in Somerset, through Devon, around Cornwall, back along the south coast of Devon, through my area in Dorset, to end at Poole. We have walked several parts of this path and I enjoyed her walking descriptions. They had very limited funds (very limited) and just walked and camped by the trail for months. The walking brought the husband back to better health (but not cured) and it gave them a sense of purpose when everything had been lost. She writes about the walk, about their previous life and about homelessness. Well written and published by a Penquin imprint. It was short listed for the Costa Prize.
One Woman Walks Wales by Ursula Martin. Her website.
I loved this book too but it is more for hiking nerds like me. After recovering from cancer she decides to walk all the rivers of Wales. What an idea! She walks 3700 miles, taking time off here and there to work and save up money to continue walking. She wild camps along the way, but built up a following on Facebook and people started offering her places to stay. This woman is determined. Now she is walking across Europe, starting in Eastern Europe and going to the Camino in Spain, then back across Spain and up to the UK. She posts about her current walk on Facebook.
I loved this book. A middle age couple lose everything in a complicated investment deal and are homeless. They had lived a simple life on a farm in Wales. Then they find out the husband has a degenerative disease. No money, bad health. So what do they do? They hike the 630 mile South West Coast path that goes from Minehead in Somerset, through Devon, around Cornwall, back along the south coast of Devon, through my area in Dorset, to end at Poole. We have walked several parts of this path and I enjoyed her walking descriptions. They had very limited funds (very limited) and just walked and camped by the trail for months. The walking brought the husband back to better health (but not cured) and it gave them a sense of purpose when everything had been lost. She writes about the walk, about their previous life and about homelessness. Well written and published by a Penquin imprint. It was short listed for the Costa Prize.
One Woman Walks Wales by Ursula Martin. Her website.
I loved this book too but it is more for hiking nerds like me. After recovering from cancer she decides to walk all the rivers of Wales. What an idea! She walks 3700 miles, taking time off here and there to work and save up money to continue walking. She wild camps along the way, but built up a following on Facebook and people started offering her places to stay. This woman is determined. Now she is walking across Europe, starting in Eastern Europe and going to the Camino in Spain, then back across Spain and up to the UK. She posts about her current walk on Facebook.