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Wanderlust: A History of Walking Paperback - 2001
by Rebecca Solnit
Profiling some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction, Solnit presents a delightful and brilliantly conceived meditation on the art of walking.
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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 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. 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. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
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- Title Wanderlust: A History of Walking
- Author Rebecca Solnit
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, N.Y., U.S.A
- Date 2001-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780140286014 / 0140286012
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Voyages and travels, Walking
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99041153
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.510
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Delightful...Solnit covers all kinds of ground in her inspiring book on walking. —The Seattle Times
Solnit is an elegant essayist...as a guide, she knows the path well; she is tireless and sure-footed. —The New York Times
Solnit is an elegant essayist...as a guide, she knows the path well; she is tireless and sure-footed. —The New York Times
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- Books & Culture, 09/01/2002, Page 18
- New York Times, 07/15/2001, Page 28
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