Wanderlust: A History of Walking
With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a pastoral and poetic investigation of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker. Solnit argues passionately for the...
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With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a pastoral and poetic investigation of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker. Solnit argues passionately for the preservation of the time and space in which to walk in an ever-more car dependent and accelerated world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781859843819 (1859843816)
Publish date: October 28th 2002
Publisher: Verso
Pages no: 335
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Environment,
Nature,
Geography,
Art,
Philosophy,
Cities,
Walking
Solnit deserves a big round of applause for undertaking what seems like such a simple but at the same time very complex and ambiguous topic to write about. I know many people who have little to no interest in walking as a leisurely activity, and to have them ever consider the underbelly of walking i...
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