The First Step
Beginning, and beginning again: the walk that starts everything.
The Wisdom of the Walk
Your name on every card.
A personalised card deck and ebook drawn from The Wisdom of the Walk: 7 suits and 56 topics, each card carrying a fresh draw of quotations and research findings, every one checked against its source. R199, emailed within minutes.
What’s inside
Seven suits, the whole of a walking life.
Each topic card has a picture on the front and, on the back, a draw of 12 to 17 lines for its theme: the great walkers and writers, modern voices, and what the research has found. Every copy draws differently, so no two decks are quite the same.
The Body That Walks
The walking body: made to move, kept well by moving, cared for when it hurts.
The Walking Mind
What walking does for thought, mood and the inner life.
The Way Underfoot
The ground we walk on: paths, places and weather.
Walking Together
The company we keep on the road.
The Long Walk
Distance, endurance and the walks that change us.
The Walk of Life
Walking as a way of living.
Choose your edition
The same wisdom in five looks.
Each edition has its own set of 64 pictures: the cover, each of the seven suits and every one of the 56 topic cards.
Storybook Edition
Gentle, hand-drawn pictures, lovely for children and grandparents.
What you get
Delivered within minutes.
The card deck
A PDF deck of 64 cards with your name on every one, to keep on a phone or tablet or print at home.
The ebook
The companion ebook: a dedication written for you, a foreword, clickable contents, every card, and a guide to using a card before a walk, with a walking group, or in a notebook.
Who it’s for
For every kind of walker.
- A card to read before your daily walk
- A walking group that opens each walk with a line
- A gift for someone starting to walk again
- Company on a camino or a multi-day trail
- A retirement gift, for the walks ahead
- A heavy season, walked one step at a time
For clubs and groups
One deck per walker, each with their own name.
Order for a whole walking club, a camino group, a retirement village or a team: add your list of names and emails, pay once, and every deck is made and emailed by itself. The first deck is full price; decks 2 to 5 are 50% off, 6 to 15 are 60% off, 16 to 30 are 70% off, 31 to 50 are 75% off, and 51 or more are 80% off.
Club and Route Editions put your own photographs, logo and welcome letter in the book, with every walker’s name. Or choose a ready-made Route Edition: R249, emailed within minutes.