![]() ![]() ![]() Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world. Viking Books, 24. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction-from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja-finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Wanderlust: A History of Walking Rebecca Solnit. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Rosesĭrawing 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. Written by an author whose previous published works have been about landscape and public space, Wanderlust is a meditation in narrative form on the meaning of a human activity that traverses both. And Solnit’s own memoirs of wandering on foot across the hills of California and England and. ![]()
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