Walking, by somehow integrating the body, the mind and the inhabited place, civilises the world. Pedestrians of the world unite! - Mike Davis This is a stunningly original account of the simple, subversive activity that keeps us all human. Solnit marshals an impressive body of research to support her zeal for the liberating and humanising activity of walking.

Rebcca Solnit's engaging cultural history of walking is full of enthusiasm for simply getting about on foot, wherever and whenever it is streaked with an activism that makes her willing to cheer all kinds of applied walking. the idea of the mind working at three miles per hour is one I shall treasure and quote forever. Drawing together many histories-of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores-Rebecca Solnit. by treating walking as a protest, pilgrimage, therapy and exercise, Solnit has written an exciting and thought-provoking book. a history of walking that is about time and space and consciousness of the world as much as about putting one foot in front of the other. Please check your requests before visiting. With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker. Wanderlust : a history of walking / Rebecca Solnit National Library of Australia Due to major building activity, some collections are unavailable. Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers. What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act.

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