AFOOT IN ENGLAND
By W.H. Hudson
CONTENTS
Chapter One. Guide-Books, An Introduction
Chapter Two. On Going Back
Chapter Three. Walking and Cycling
Chapter Four. Seeking a Shelter
Chapter Five. Wind, Wave, and Spirit
Chapter Six. By Swallowfield
Chapter Seven. Roman Calleva
Chapter Eight. A Gold Day At Silchester
Chapter Nine. Rural Rides
Chapter Ten. The Last of His Name
Chapter Eleven. Salisbury and Its Doves
Chapter Twelve. Whitesheet Hill
Chapter Thirteen. Bath and Wells Revisited
Chapter Fourteen. The Return of the Native
Chapter Fifteen. Summer Days on the Otter
Chapter Sixteen. In Praise of the Cow
Chapter Seventeen. An Old Road Leading Nowhere
Chapter Eighteen. Branscombe
Chapter Nineteen. Abbotsbury
Chapter Twenty. Salisbury Revisited
Chapter Twenty-One. Stonehenge
Chapter Twenty-Two. The Village and "The Stones"
Chapter Twenty-Three. Following a River
Chapter Twenty-Four. Troston
Chapter Twenty-Five. My Friend Jack
Chapter One: Guide-Books: An Introduction
Guide-books are so many that it seems probable we have more than any other country—possibly more than all the rest of the universe together. Every county has a little library of its own—guides to its towns, churches, abbeys, castles, rivers, mountains; finally, to the county as a whole. They are of all prices and all sizes, from the diminutive paper-covered booklet, worth a penny, to the stout cloth-bound octavo volume which costs eight or ten or twelve shillings, or to the gigantic folio county history, the huge repository from which the guide-book maker gets his materials. For these great works are also guide-books, containing everything we want to learn, only made on so huge a scale as to be suited to the coat pockets of Brobdingnagians rather than of little ordinary men. The wonder of it all comes in when we find that these book