Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit
With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction-from Wordsworth to Andre Breton's Nadja-Wanderlust offers a pastoral and poetic investigation of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker. Solnit argues passionately for the preservation of the time and space in which to walk in an ever-more car dependent and accelerated world.
.. a history of walking that is about time and space and consciousness of the world as much as about putting one foot in front of the other. * The Times *
... by treating walking as a protest, pilgrimage, therapy and exercise, Solnit has written an exciting and thought-provoking book. * Scotland on Sunday *
... the idea of the mind working at three miles per hour is one I shall treasure and quote forever. * The Herald *
Rebcca Solnit's engaging cultural history of walking is full of enthusiasm for simply getting about on foot, wherever and whenever; it is streaked with an activism that makes her willing to cheer all kinds of applied walking. * Times Literary Supplement *
Solnit marshals an impressive body of research to support her zeal for the liberating and humanising activity of walking. * Daily Telegraph *
Solnit walks, but her prose soars. This is a stunningly original account of the simple, subversive activity that keeps us all human. Pedestrians of the world unite! -- Mike Davis
Walking, by somehow integrating the body, the mind and the inhabited place, civilises the world. * Evening Standard *
... by treating walking as a protest, pilgrimage, therapy and exercise, Solnit has written an exciting and thought-provoking book. * Scotland on Sunday *
... the idea of the mind working at three miles per hour is one I shall treasure and quote forever. * The Herald *
Rebcca Solnit's engaging cultural history of walking is full of enthusiasm for simply getting about on foot, wherever and whenever; it is streaked with an activism that makes her willing to cheer all kinds of applied walking. * Times Literary Supplement *
Solnit marshals an impressive body of research to support her zeal for the liberating and humanising activity of walking. * Daily Telegraph *
Solnit walks, but her prose soars. This is a stunningly original account of the simple, subversive activity that keeps us all human. Pedestrians of the world unite! -- Mike Davis
Walking, by somehow integrating the body, the mind and the inhabited place, civilises the world. * Evening Standard *
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including a trilogy of atlases and the books The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award).
A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's.
A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781859843819 |
| ISBN 10 | 1859843816 |
| Title | Wanderlust |
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2002-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 335 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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