Wanderlust: A History of WalkingPenguin, 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 |
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Sources for Foot Quotations | 353 |
Paris or Botanizing on the Asphalt | 212 |
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