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'best foot books' is my own imprint through which I'm publishing a series of pocket books, so far each connected to walking. They include fiction and non-fiction. People love the look of them, and the fact that they fit so neatly in a hand or pocket (with pocket-sized prices)!

You'll find the books for sale on the 'My Books' page. Whiter than White is a story set on the Isle of Rum in 1913 when servants had to walk 5 miles over a high pass from Kinloch Castle to the laundry! In The Beat of Heart Stones a walker falls into step and conversation with a dry stone dyke that climbs the north side of Schiehallion for two miles in a straight line.

New for 2012 is Following our Fathers: Two Journeys among Mountains. It's a non-fiction account of two significant journeys I've made on foot in the last few years as memorials to both a friend's and my own father. I'll leave it to speak for itself below. You can also follow its progress by 'liking' its facebook page. (These two essays now form part of my fuller book Doubling Back: Ten paths todden in memory.)



	More on 'Following our Fathers' ‘Thought provoking and beautifully descriptive, this is the story of four mountain expeditions - a life or death tramp through the mountains of Norway; an Alpine climbing adventure with a cruel and disastrous climax and the two expeditions those journeys later inspired. But in the braiding of all four journeys Linda Cracknell leads us on another journey - a woven trail of paternal influence and discovery.’ Cameron McNeish ‘A wonderfully subtle pair of stories about walking, wayfaring and memory. Cracknell explores the strange durability of the paths that we make in our lives, in our dreams and after our deaths.’ Robert Macfarlane ‘Of the ‘new nature writers’ (who bring personal and cultural history to bear on the actual experience of wild nature) Linda Cracknell must be one of the sturdiest – in both her prose and her legs. Here she offers us two extraordinary essays on two extraordinary walks – exploring some seriously tough terrain and finding meaning and memory in the going and the doing.’ Sara Maitland best foot books ISBN 978-0-9562453-2-8 Price: £6