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  Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Paperback) By (author) Rebecca Solnit

  

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  Short Description for WanderlustA cultural history of walking explores the ancient practice, from ancient Greece to the present, delving into Wordsworth, Gary Snyder, Rousseau, Jane Austen, and other cultural and literary icons to show how this basic activity has been imagined througout history.
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  • Publisher: Penguin USA
  • Published: 01 June 2001
  • Format: Paperback 326 pages
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  • Categories: Sociology | Philosophy Of Mind | Mind, Body, Spirit: Thought & Practice | Walking, Hiking, Trekking
  • ISBN 13: 9780140286014 ISBN 10: 0140286012
  • Sales rank: 98,579

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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.