![]() ![]() ![]() Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world. 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 lives in San Francisco, apparently not far from my daughter, near Golden Gate Park. A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of. A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and give credit to Amazon, for suggesting it based on my search history. Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit: 9780140286014 : Books. 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. Rebecca Solnit covers a lot of territory, mental as well as geographical, in between her Nevada bookends. ![]() A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistenceĭrawing 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. ![]()
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