Wanderlust: a history of walking
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New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2001.
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Book
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x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories -- of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores -- to create a portrait of the range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history signifies walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit hones 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 the mountaineers. The book finds a profound relationship between walking and thinking, walking and culture, and argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in an evermore automobile-dependent and accelerated world.
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Solnit, R. (2001). Wanderlust: a history of walking. New York, N.Y., Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Solnit, Rebecca. 2001. Wanderlust: A History of Walking. New York, N.Y., Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Solnit, Rebecca, Wanderlust: A History of Walking. New York, N.Y., Penguin Books, 2001.
MLA Citation (style guide)Solnit, Rebecca. Wanderlust: A History of Walking. New York, N.Y., Penguin Books, 2001.
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| 505 | 0 | |a The pace of thoughts. Tracing a headland: An introduction -- The mind at three miles an hour -- Rising and falling: The theorists of bipedalism -- The uphill road to grace: some pilgrimages -- Labyrinths and Cadillacs: walking into the realm of the symbolic -- From the garden to the wild. The path out of the garden -- The legs of William Wordsworth -- A thousand miles of conventional sentiment: the literature of walking -- Mount Obscurity and Mount Arrival -- Of walking clubs and land wars -- Lives of the streets. The solitary stroller and the city -- Paris, or Botanizing on the asphalt -- Citizens of the streets: parties, processions, and revolutions -- Walking after midnight: Women, sex, and public space -- Past the end of the road. Aerobic Sisyphus and the suburbanized psyche -- The shape of a walk -- Las Vegas, or the longest distance between two points. | |
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780140286014, 0140286012
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-318) and index.
Description
Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories -- of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores -- to create a portrait of the range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history signifies walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit hones 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 the mountaineers. The book finds a profound relationship between walking and thinking, walking and culture, and argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in an evermore automobile-dependent and accelerated world.
