The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as competition, or as art, walking is a profoundly universal aspect of what makes us humans, social creatures, and engaged with the world. Cultural commentator, Whitbread Prize winner, and author of Sex Collectors Geoff Nicholson offers his fascinating, definitive, and personal ruminations on the literature, science, philosophy, art, and history of walking. Nicholson finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or in the shape of a cross or a circle, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. He examines the history and traditions of walking and its role as inspiration to artists, musicians, and writers like Bob Dylan, Charles Dickens, and Buster Keaton. In The Lost Art of Walking, he brings curiosity, imagination, and genuine insight to a subject that often strides, shuffles, struts, or lopes right by us.Geoff Nicholson has written sixteen books. Street Sleeper was a finalist for the Yorkshire Post First Work Award, Bleeding London was a Whitbread Prize finalist, and Bedlam Burning was named a New York Times Novel Review Noteworthy Book of the Year. Sex Collectors and The Lost Art of Walking are two of his nonfiction books, and his journalism has featured in The New York Times, Bookforum, Gastronomica, ArtReview, Black Clock, The Believer, McSweeney's, The Los Angeles Times, and Custom Car, among other magazines. He contributes to the Los Angeles Review of Books as a contributing editor. He was born in the English city of Sheffield and now resides in Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594489983 |
| ISBN 10 | 159448998X |
| Title | The Lost Art of Walking |
| Author | Geoff Nicholson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
| Year published | 2008-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
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