Wanderlust: A History of WalkingViking, 2000 - Počet stran: 326 What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, 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 means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes 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 mountaineers. The first general history of walking, Solnit's 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 ever-more automobile-dependent and accelerated world. With delightful profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction -- from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bonnet to Andre Breton's Nadja -- Wanderlust offers a provocative examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker. |
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... longer and longer , longer than I had ever seen them . I asked him how long he thought they were , and he told me to stand still and he'd pace it off . I faced east into my shadow , toward the closest mountains that all the shad- ows ...
... longer and longer , longer than I had ever seen them . I asked him how long he thought they were , and he told me to stand still and he'd pace it off . I faced east into my shadow , toward the closest mountains that all the shad- ows ...
Strana 92
... longer commemorated human history and politics . Nature was no longer a setting , but the subject . And the walkers in such a garden were no longer being steered toward ready - made reflections on virtue or Virgil ; they were free to ...
... longer commemorated human history and politics . Nature was no longer a setting , but the subject . And the walkers in such a garden were no longer being steered toward ready - made reflections on virtue or Virgil ; they were free to ...
Strana 253
... longer has a library within walking distance and may not be allowed to walk far alone anyway ( walk- ing to school , which was for generations the great formative first foray alone into the world , is likewise becoming a less common ...
... longer has a library within walking distance and may not be allowed to walk far alone anyway ( walk- ing to school , which was for generations the great formative first foray alone into the world , is likewise becoming a less common ...
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The Mind at Three Miles an Hour | 14 |
The Theorists of Bipedalism | 30 |
Some Pilgrimages | 45 |
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