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Item Details
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WANDERLUST
A HISTORY OF WALKING |
| By: |
Rebecca Solnit |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£17.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1859846238 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781859846230 |
| Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2001 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
This title explores the profound relationship between thinking and walking, walking and culture, and argues for the preservation of the time and space in which to walk in an ever-more car-dependent and accelerated world. |
| Synopsis: |
A pastoral and poetic investigation of the politics, philosophy and human pleasure in the activity of walking. The author explores the position that landscape and walking have in the history of literature, and philosophy, whilst reminiscing on the walks she has taken in the USA, Europe and the UK. An irreverent and passionate account of human activity, the book includes profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction, from Wordsworth to Gary Synder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennett to Andre Breton's Nadja. "Wanderlust" offers a provocative examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination and the world around the walker. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Verso Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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