Essex is a county of contrasts and surprises, far removed
from the jokes and clich?s surrounding it. Journalist
Brian Mooney and artist Jon Harris set out to celebrate
its people, history, architecture and geography by
walking every inch of its boundaries. Whether tramping up
the Maplin Sands, stumbling across an old soldier living
wild in the woods, or visiting a chapel on a lonely
seawall, their story is brimming with unexpected
encounters and colourful surprises. Starting in Waltham
Abbey, their walk takes them down the old Essex border
into London, along the Thames to the marshes, rivers and
creeks of the eastern seaboard and then follows the
Suffolk borders to the edges of Cambridge and
Hertfordshire.
