The Last Great Walk by Wayne Curtis

The Last Great Walk by Wayne Curtis

In 1909, Edward Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, covering around 40 miles a day and greeted by wildly cheering audiences in every city. The New York Times called it the "first bona-fide walk . . . across the American continent," and eagerly chronicled a journey in which Weston was beset by fatigue, mosquitos, vicious headwinds, and brutal heat. He was 70 years old.

In The Last Great Walk, journalist Wayne Curtis uses the framework of Weston's fascinating and surprising story, and investigates exactly what we lost when we turned away from foot travel, and what we could potentially regain with America's new embrace of pedestrianism. From how our brains and legs evolved to accommodate our ancient traveling needs to the way that American cities have been designed to cater to cars and discourage pedestrians, Curtis guides readers through an engaging, intelligent exploration of how something as simple as the way we get from one place to another continues to shape our health, our environment, and even our national identity.
Not walking, he argues, may be one of the most radical things humans have ever done.

Wayne Curtis (born in 1960) is an American actor. 1945) splits his time between Newcastle and Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is the author of many books of articles about fishing, fishermen, and the Miramichi River, as well as two story collections, Preferred Lies (Nimbus, 1998) and River Tales (Nimbus, 2000), and two novels, One Indian Summer (Goose Lane, 1994) and Last Stand (Nimbus, 1999).

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ISBN 13	9781609613723
ISBN 10	1609613724
Title	The Last Great Walk
Author	Wayne Curtis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Year published	2014-09-09
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.