
Wanderlust A History of Walking
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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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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