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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
adventurous
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
adventurous
reflective
tense
medium-paced
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hopeful
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Good but not the salt path. Story of hope of Raynor and Moth is still wonderful and epic as ever but it didn’t grip me the same way as previous ones.
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Rating lowered after the Observer article this last weekend (July 2025)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Chronic illness
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
In this third book we see Moth’s condition has worsened. He struggles to prune the trees in the orchard, and feels unbalanced when walking. Having previously seen the restorative power of walking, the decision is made to undertake a walk they’ve always dreamed of.
Perhaps when you are at your low points, and feel there’s nothing to lose, you can find the inner strength to do something that might - by any stretch of the imagination - seem crazy. However, when packaged in this way the walk from Scotland to Cornwall does offer a chance to reconnect with nature, the opportunity to reassess what is important and the time to test one’s resolve in the face of some very challenging circumstances.
As someone who enjoys walking I truly admire what Raynor and Moth have done. As someone who also detests midges, sore feet and heavy rain, I read most of this book feeling I was reading about some kind of personal hell.
Throughout the book I found myself quite taken by the obvious love of nature and the focus on how we as a race are slowly destroying the world we inhabit. The signs are there of damage to our environment, but these are signs that we are not in a position to heed while engrossed in the small stuff that occupies us so much of the time. Having walked some of the areas they cover in their route, I also found myself recollecting my own walks and how they’ve impacted me. The little connections made along the way - particularly when taking place immediately after COVID lockdown regulations were being eased - were touching, but each of these moments also highlights the shifting attitudes towards walkers/the countryside that seem to be taking place.
It left me with a definite sense of wanting to finally get round to reading The Salt Path - clearly a defining read for many, though each seems to take their own ideas from it - but I’m also wondering if buying husband a copy of this to read might be a mistake! The bug will hit him hard after reading this…
Perhaps when you are at your low points, and feel there’s nothing to lose, you can find the inner strength to do something that might - by any stretch of the imagination - seem crazy. However, when packaged in this way the walk from Scotland to Cornwall does offer a chance to reconnect with nature, the opportunity to reassess what is important and the time to test one’s resolve in the face of some very challenging circumstances.
As someone who enjoys walking I truly admire what Raynor and Moth have done. As someone who also detests midges, sore feet and heavy rain, I read most of this book feeling I was reading about some kind of personal hell.
Throughout the book I found myself quite taken by the obvious love of nature and the focus on how we as a race are slowly destroying the world we inhabit. The signs are there of damage to our environment, but these are signs that we are not in a position to heed while engrossed in the small stuff that occupies us so much of the time. Having walked some of the areas they cover in their route, I also found myself recollecting my own walks and how they’ve impacted me. The little connections made along the way - particularly when taking place immediately after COVID lockdown regulations were being eased - were touching, but each of these moments also highlights the shifting attitudes towards walkers/the countryside that seem to be taking place.
It left me with a definite sense of wanting to finally get round to reading The Salt Path - clearly a defining read for many, though each seems to take their own ideas from it - but I’m also wondering if buying husband a copy of this to read might be a mistake! The bug will hit him hard after reading this…
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funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced