📚 Walking

The oldest exercise: health claims, travel on foot, and the strange mechanics of the race walk.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject walking in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A Time of Gifts	Patrick Leigh Fermor	1977	25
	Wanderlust	Rebecca Solnit	2000	17
	The Pennine Way	Kenneth Oldham	1960	11
	In Praise of Walking	Shane O'Mara	2019	9
	Footloose in Jerusalem	Sarah Fox Kaminker	1971	8
	The Longest Walk	George Meegan	1988	8
	Land's End	Michael Cunningham	2002	8
	Venice	Milton Grundy	1971	7
	Walk Away the Pounds	Leslie Sansone	2005	7
	The complete book of walking	Charles T. Kuntzleman	1978	6
	Local Walks	V.A. Basham	1990	6
	Untrodden ways	Nick Channer	1991	6
	Chiltern Walks	Nicholas Moon	1992	6
	Walkshaping	Gary Yanker	1993	6
	Walking for fitness	Lon H. Seiger	1990	5
	Walking with Wilkinson	Frank Wilkinson	1993	5
	The South Downs Way	Paul Millmore	1998	5
	Walking haunted London	Jones, Richard	1999	5
	Born to Walk	Dan Rubinstein	2015	5
	Windswept	Annabel Abbs	2021	5
	Finding your way in the outdoors	Robert L. Mooers	1972	4
	A walk across America	Jenkins, Peter	1979	4
	Secret London	Duncan, Andrew	1995	4
	War Walks	Richard Holmes	1996	4
	Pictorial Gde/Lakeland Fell (Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells)	Alfred Wainwright	1999	4
	Planetwalker	John Francis	2005	4
	Dog walks man	John Zeaman	2007	4
	The Burren & the Aran Islands	Tony Kirby	2009	4
	A Philosophy Of Walking	Frederic Gros	2014	4
	Het zoutpad	Raynor Winn	2018	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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