Waypoints

A Journey on Foot

Waypoints
Robert Martineau
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NZ$ 30.00
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
7 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781784709921
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A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of pilgrimage, wilderness and walking. Unhappy in his office job, Robert Martineau craves an experience that will shake his feeling of inertia. Aged twenty-seven, he buys a flight to Accra, and begins to walk. He walks 1,000 miles through Ghana, Togo and Benin, to Ouidah, an ancient animist centre on the West African coast. Martineau walks alone across desert, through rainforests, over mountains, carrying everything he needs on his back, sleeping in villages or on the side of paths, travelling shrine to shrine. Along the way he meets shamans, priests, local historians, archaeologists and kings. He begins to confront the lines of slavery and exploitation that binds his home to theirs. Through the process of walking each day, and the lessons of those he walks among, Martineau starts to find the freedom he craves, and to build connections with the natural world and the past. Drawing widely on landscape and the cultures of the places he passes, as well as the writers who inspired his journey, Martineau discovers how a walking pilgrimage can change a person
Waypoints wonderfully explores how walking animates resilience in times of stress, anxiety and worry, illustrating, through personal experience, how the journey is often our collective human goal. -- Shane O' Mara, author of ' In Praise of Walking' This is a book about how to travel: curious, observant, informed and poignantly honest. It is a marvellous and sensitive portrayal of the author' s inner and the outer world. -- Jay Griffiths, author of ' Wild: An Elemental Journey' An epic journey and a book worthy of it. A thrilling and poignant meditation on the elusive reasons for getting out of bed in the morning; a dazzling kaleidoscope of colour, sensation, and time. An important new voice has arrived. -- Charles Foster, author of ' Being a Beast'
Robert Martineau is co-founder of TRIBE, a nutrition company, and TRIBE Freedom Foundation, a charity fighting human trafficking. Waypoints is his first book. He lives in London.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784709921
Published: 7 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 288

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