WITH MUSTARD ON MY BACK - 180,000 miles

John Merrill is the world's greatest walker with over 180,000 miles walked in the last 33 years - the average person does 75,000 miles in a lifetime! For every mile that you walk you extend your life by 21 minutes - John has extended his by 6 1/2 years!
he began walking in Britain first through the islands of the Hebrides (1,003 miles); then the Orkneys and Shetlands (907 miles) and the entire west coast of Ireland (1,578 miles). Next he joined together the ten National Parks of England and Wales together (2,043 miles), before doing a 1,600 mile training walk from Land's End to Johno'Groats. This was in preparation for his record breaking 6,824 mile walk around the entire coastline of Britain - the first person to do so. Moving abroad he walked 2,000 miles on the Appalachian Trail in eastern America as training for a 2,700 mile walk from Mexico to Canada via the Pacific Crest Trail. He continued on to the Continental Divide Trail (2,700 miles) before completing a 4,260 mile coast to coast walk across America. In Europe he walked across it and the whole of the Alps and Pyrenees (2,800 miles).

In this book of 25 years of marathon walking, John has gathered together the stories of these remarkable walks together with many smaller ones....the book continues to grow!
A5. Wire bound. 140 pages. 68 photographs. 15 maps.