Journey through Britain (1968)

Hillaby pioneered the modern British pedestrian travelogue with his epic 1,100-mile walk from Land's End to John o' Groats without taking a single motorised lift. Carrying his life in a rucksack, he interrogates changing postwar landscapes, geological strata, and local folklore with the keen eye of a field naturalist. The journey remains an enduring testament to the physical rigours and intellectual joys of slow cross-country travel.