Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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Penguin, 1. 6. 2001 - Počet stran: 368
A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses

Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
 

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The Mind at Three Miles an Hour
15
The Theorists of Bipedalism
32
Some Pilgrimages
49
The Path Out of the Garden
87
The Legs of William Wordsworth
112
Mount Obscurity and Mount Arrival
143
Of Walking Clubs and Land Wars
160
The Solitary Stroller and the City
185
Parties
232
Aerobic Sisyphus and the Suburbanized Psyche
271
The Shape of a Walk
291
Las Vegas or the Longest Distance Between
302
Notes
319
Index
347
Sources for Foot Quotations
353
Autorská práva

Paris or Botanizing on the Asphalt
212

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O autorovi (2001)

Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award.

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