walking

Lily enjoys walks with her dog Nicky, not realizing he is fending off unseen monsters all along the way.

Discusses the basic techniques used in walking fitness; includes self-tests to evaluate techniques, eighteen walking exercises, twenty-nine different workouts, and sample programs for all levels of experience.

Offers advice on planning an adventure in remote territory, discussing budget, risk assessment, physical fitness, and other topics; explains how to read maps, use a compass, navigate by natural signposts, and understand the weather; and describes techniques and training for walking cycling, kayak and canoe touring, horseback riding, and traveling with pack animals, by camel, or by vehicle.

Joe is given ten balloons for his birthday party, and while on his walk home he loses them all.

Still grieving the loss of his wife and the rest of his life, Alan Christoffersen starts walking the one thousand miles between South Dakota and St. Louis. Along the way, he meets a mysterious woman who follows him for nearly a hundred miles, a ghost hunter who searches for his wife in graveyards, and an elderly Polish man who gives Alan a lift and shares a memorable story with him.

Alan Christoffersen, attacked and left to die on the road only sixteen days into his cross-country trek to Key West, wakes in a Spokane, Washington, hospital to realize that he has not only lost his wife, home, and business, but has now been deprived of the ability to walk, and he accepts a generous offer to recuperate at the home of a mysterious woman named Angel, who he learns needs some help along her journey, too.

As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to crisscross steps and backwards steps.

Both mother and youngster discover there is so much to see on the way to school that dawdling is inevitable.

On title page: An illustrated guide to the country's major historic and natural walking trails, from New England to the Pacific Coast.