5/28/2023 0 Comments Wanderlust a history of walking![]() ![]() ![]() There are various ways of pilgrimages travels. ![]() The goal is the final arrival point but also the walking, it is a practice of fatigue and labor: walking like penitence. It is the main activity and it is also a quest/search of something. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world. Pilgrimages are based on walking and people want to be cured by an illness. Solnit admits, an amateur history, but amateur in the best sense. 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. 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. Description A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's RosesÄrawing 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. The first general history of walking, Solnits book finds a profound relationship between walking and thinking, walking and culture, and argues for the. ![]()
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