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Freedom to Roam

Fell-Walking and the Life

Geographic

Wil Gesler

KEY SELLING POINTS
Shows how a very wide variety of geographic research projects actually get done
Follows the author as he walks 3000 miles and climbs over 800,000 feet in the English Lake District
Shows how walking and research are interrelated

This unique hybrid of a book shows how Wil Gesler’s academic pursuits in the field of Health Geography at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill intersect with both his leisure time activity as a dedicated walker in
the English Lake District fells and his personal life.

Follow the author as he interviews 1000 residents of rural Appalachia about their health care and examines
health care access for mothers and children in a Nigerian city. Do geographies of the novel Moby Dick and the
TV show ER and make a mortality map of Freetown in Sierra Leone. Find peace at a pilgrimage site in the heart
of the Balkan Wars and ask patients and staff to rate their environments in a London hospital. And so much
more.
At the same time, walk Lakeland hills with the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge and navigate through heavy fog
and rain using a map, a compass, and a GPS unit. Experience a wide range of emotions as you face both rough
and smooth terrain and ever-changing weather, learn to perceive landscapes in different ways, and take risky
walks. And so much more.

Wil Gesler is a health geographer who has carried out both quantitative and qualitative research in Africa,
Europe, and North America. Upon retirement he walked around 3000 miles and climbed over 800,000 feet in
the English Lake District. Wil lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and Freedom to Roam is his 9rst published book
with Troubador Publishing.

Publication Date: 28th March 2024 £13.99 ISBN: 9781805143178
Thema subject category: DNC – Memoirs
paperback 216 x 138 mm 280 pp Portrait Author location: North Carolina

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