Walker by name, walker by nature. Stanley Walker loves walking. He also loves the north of England. So what better way to celebrate his retirement than to do a tour of his native north that includes the Pennine Way? Stan"s journey takes him not only through the landscapes of the Peak District, the Dales and Northumberland but through his own remembered life and the age he has lived through, from the coronation of Elizabeth II to the war in Iraq. It is a journey haunted by the ghosts of his past and reminders of his ageing body.