Ten of the best long walks in literature

At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best long walks in literature.

One entry on the list:

The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald

German academic Sebald turned a long, wandering walk through East Anglia into a sequence of visionary meditations. The odd things he sees inspire evocations of flooded towns, deserts and Chinese silk factories. The Suffolk coast becomes a landscape of existential emptiness. He communes with Shakespeare and Sir Thomas Browne and turns walking into a new kind of fiction.

Read about the other entries on the list.

The Rings of Saturn is one of Rebecca Stott's five best historical novels.

--Marshal Zeringue