Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for WANDERLUST: A HISTORY OF WALKING By Rebecca Solnit - Hardcover Excellent at the best. They appeared in early mythology and religion Xenophon marched. 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. This is at the heart of Rebecca Solnits excellent study, so let her pedestrians tell us. 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. 1 Early life and education Solnit was born in 1961 2 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to a Jewish father and Irish Catholic mother. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker.Description A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Rosesĭrawing 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. Wanderlust: Rebecca Solnit on How Walking Vitalizes the Meanderings of the Mind I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer.
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. What does it mean to be out walking in the world From pilgrimages to protest marches, mountaineering to meandering, this modern classic weaves together. A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political. 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 this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Read Wanderlust A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit available from Rakuten Kobo.
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