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A meditation on running, nature and the pursuit of freedom in the modern world.

About the Author

Vybarr Cregan-Reid is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Kent. He has a popular blog, psychojography.com, and has written on running for the Guardian, Telegraph, Literary Review and the BBC. He has also written numerous articles and essays for academic journals and a book on Victorian culture. @vybarr

Reviews

A wonderfully subtle and ambitious book
*Guardian*

Insightful and intoxicating. Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book makes you take your shoes off and run through a world of ideas about nature.
*Lynne Truss*

Delightful
*The Times Literary Supplement*

Footnotes is a blazing achievement.
*Caught by the River*

Few have done it so artfully and completely.
*Literary Review*

Here is a book in which the striding energy of the prose matches its subject.
*Iain Sinclair*

Wonderfully authoritative vindication of what ought to be a self-evident truth: that running should be about being alive, not being a consumer.
*Richard Askwith - author of Running Free: A Runner’s Journey Back to Nature*

It’s hard to imagine a more compelling or poetic running companion than Vybarr Cregan-Reid. He inspires us not just to run, but to be truly alive while we are doing it.
*Scarlett Thomas*

A brilliant, broad-ranging and beautiful book. Like a great run into a wild landscape, it opens the heart and the mind, taking you off into the unknown, delighting at every turn and returning you changed for the better.
*Rob Cowen - author of Common Ground*