Hardie Grant Explore is thrilled to announce the acquisition of multi-New York Times bestselling author and philosopher Sarah Wilson’s Walk the World Bigger. Hardie Grant Explore acquired World print, ebook and audiobook rights and will publish for April 2026.
Sarah Wilson has been on a decades-long journey to make the case for humanity’s return to nature and its relationship to it, which she is convinced was always forged by simply walking in it. Sarah believes that in the troubled, complex times in which we live, many are feeling that we have become profoundly disconnected from what matters – from nature and from our human nature. In her forthcoming book, Walk the World Bigger, Sarah asks the question – what if the salve was as simple as a walk in a forest?
Sarah said, “I am thrilled to be charged with creating a book that is wholly about dialing people back into what they crave - more connection and a sense of their own adventurous, curious, wild and true humanity. Everything about this book is calibrated to holding the reader’s hand to this place.”
“We want more awe, we want to live in attunement with our world, we want to move, to hike, and we also want to understand why and how this original urge exists. This book will teach people to access their own sense of wildness – physically and philosophically."
In Walk the World Bigger Sarah brings together the science, stories and wisdom gathered from over 24 hikes around the world to illustrate her claim in a visually poetic format. Each hike is an extraordinary adventure, incorporating tips, lesser-known travel options, unique food experiences, an illustrated map and historical curiosities. It is part adventure guide, part inspirational coffee table tomb, and part philosophical polemic. Sarah explains how walking
goes at the same pace as discerning thought (something this world could do with more of) and shares how the world’s leading complex thinkers hiked to develop their ideas. Nietzsche had a walking pole with a specially fitted hole drilled in it for his pencil and paper!
Hardie Grant Explore Publishing Director Danielle Dominguez said “Hardie Grant Explore is so excited to be working with the brilliant Sarah Wilson to publish her unique compendium of hiking and nature wisdom, as she traverses the globe seeking answers to big human questions. This is a much-needed book for disconnected times, and there is no one better placed than Sarah, someone who is ever-curious and all heart, to write it.”
Walk the World Bigger will be published on 31 March 2026.
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Publication Details:
Title: Walk the World Bigger
Sub-title: 24 Life Lessons from 24 Hikes
Author: Sarah Wilson
Imprint: Hardie Grant Explore
Publication Date: 31 March 2026
ISBN: 9781741179453
Format: Paperback, eBook and audiobook
RRP: $50
Rights: World (print, eBook and audiobook)
About Sarah Wilson.
Sarah Wilson is a multi-New York Times and Amazon bestselling author, social philosopher, international keynote speaker, minimalist and philanthropist. She edited Cosmopolitan magazine Australia at 29, founded the global I Quit Sugar movement, hosted the most-watched TV series in the nation’s history – Masterchef Australia – and wrote the bestseller First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, which Mark Manson described as “the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read.”
Her most recent book, This One Wild and Precious Life, won the US Gold Nautilus Prize, and she has ranked in the top 200 most influential authors in the world (two years in a row).
Sarah leads dynamic, global conversations about modern philosophy, creativity, existential risk and climate change via her keynote speaking, Wild podcast, and her Substack and social communities (of 550,000 subscribers).
She lives nomadically, but is based between Paris and Sydney, is a compulsive hiker and adventurer.
For more information, please contact Hardie Grant Publishing on E: [email protected].