Wanderlust A History of Walking
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. 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. 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.
Reviews

Cristian Garcia@cristian
No es un tema sencillo de abordar. Pero como un entusiasta de la caminata me genero curiosidad. Lo leí mientras caminaba. Vi la caminata desde otra perspectiva: para manifestarse, para conocer, para pasear, para reflexionar y para desplazarse. El libro es interesante -insisto que no es un tema sencillo- pero a ratos me perdía, sólo para encontrar el camino de vuelta un par de hojas más adelante. "If a city is a language spoken by walkers , then a postpedestrian city has not only fallen silent but risks becoming a dead language".

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