Since 2011, Libby DeLana has walked every day, traversing over 25,000 miles—equivalent to the earth’s circumference. In her first book, Do Walk, she writes about how walking can be a grounding and spiritual act, bolstering your connection to the natural world. Libby shares what she’s learnt from her many walks from her home in Newburyport, on both an everyday and more profound scale.

Walking is the ultimate navigational tool. It helps us to navigate the earth, and our life, ultimately helping us see who we are and where we want to go. Here are a few things to consider when building your own daily walking practice.

The outdoors is where I am most at home, it is where I find ideas, comfort, awe, creativity, challenges, wisdom, community — all of the elements that remind me of who I am beyond societal labels and titles. So I decided that no matter what I was going to get outside and go for a walk.

In Do Walk, I reveal how walking each day provides the time and space to reconnect with the world around us; process thoughts; improve our physical wellbeing; and unlock creativity. This inspiring and reflective guide is an invitation to step outside, and see where the path takes us.

In Do Walk, Libby outlines the process of starting this daily practice for ourselves, the benefits of walking, and reflections from famous figures – decorated with her journal entries, self-deprecating humor, and her breathtaking photography. Read this book. Give this book. Live this book. Watch out for pirates.