In The Icknield Way, originallypublished in 1913, Edward Thomas walks one of the great ancient footpaths ofEngland, The Icknield Way, which runs from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshireto Suffolk, and connects to the Great Ridgeway, and has a claim to be one ofBritain's oldest roads. In startling and evocative prose, Thomas recounts thehistory of the path through the ages, tells us how it was established, thepeople who have used it and takes us on a journey through time and place. Oneof Thomas' great prose works, republished alongside Little Toller's editions ofThe South Country and In Pursuit of Spring.
