Preview of Long Distance Walks
By Brian Tyler, AFIChemE, Cheshire, England
{Editors note: This 47 page report of five walks is from a family memoir by Brian Tyler, father of my friend Simon Tyler. Brian – a truly peripatetic professor and chemist – estimates he has walked some 75,000 miles over his more than 80 years on earth, cycled at least 50,000 miles, and run about 4,600 miles. This chatty and informative chapter from his memoir details five walks taken between 1975 and 1999. It gives a feel for each walk, provides useful information (though some is doubtless out-of-date) and reveals his sharp eye for historical detail. His photographs have a family album feel and add greatly to the text. When I read this report I was enchanted by how it compellingly tells the story of one man’s long walks over time. Brian kindly agreed to my request to include it on hut2hut.info as a unique example of how walking fits into a life well lived. – Sam Demas, October 2016}