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By: Duncan Minshull
An anthology of over fifty pieces celebrating the very special nature of nightwalking, selected by the editor of the successful walking anthologies Beneath my Feet, Sauntering and Globetrotting
“It grows dark. Life jingles, toots, and hammers.” Joseph Roth
Collected in The Indigo Hours are over fifty pieces describing the unique experience of walking at night, drawn from journals, letters and travelogues diaries ranging from the 1600s to the present day, recording journeys made on city streets and through nature; at twilight; through moonlight and towards dawn, including contributions from Virginia Woolf, Jozef Roth, Franz Kafka, Hilaire Belloc, Edith Wharton, WG Sebald, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jack London, Walter Benjamin, Nik Cohn, Herman Melville, Rachel Carson, Edward Lear among many others.
An anthology of over fifty pieces celebrating the very special nature of nightwalking, selected by the editor of the successful walking anthologies Beneath my Feet, Sauntering and Globetrotting
“It grows dark. Life jingles, toots, and hammers.” Joseph Roth
Collected in The Indigo Hours are over fifty pieces describing the unique experience of walking at night, drawn from journals, letters and travelogues diaries ranging from the 1600s to the present day, recording journeys made on city streets and through nature; at twilight; through moonlight and towards dawn, including contributions from Virginia Woolf, Jozef Roth, Franz Kafka, Hilaire Belloc, Edith Wharton, WG Sebald, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jack London, Walter Benjamin, Nik Cohn, Herman Melville, Rachel Carson, Edward Lear among many others.