Essays · 2025
The Long Way Round
Notes on walking, borders and belonging.
About the book
A walk from the Baltic to the Carpathians becomes a meditation on home, memory and the stories we tell about distance. Marta Zielińska writes with the patience of a long-distance walker: attentive to weather, to the people she meets, and to the quiet arguments we have with ourselves on the road.
The Long Way Round is a book about moving slowly enough to notice what is already there.
“The first mile is always an argument with yourself. After that, the road begins to do the thinking.”