Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9781783787357
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 326 S.
Format (T/L/B): 2.2 x 19.8 x 12.9 cm
Einband: Paperback

Beschreibung

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? Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. 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.