A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers.
Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Call Them By Their True Names, The Mother of All Questions, Men Explain Things to Me, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.
Radical, humane, witty, sometimes wonderfully dandyish, at other
times, impassioned and serious
*Alain de Botton*
[A] magisterial history of walking
*Guardian*
A history of walking that is about time and space and consciousness
of the world as much as about putting one foot in front of the
other
*The Times*
A writer of startling freshness and precision
*New York Times Book Review*
Solnit walks, but her prose soars. This is a stunningly original
account of the simple, subversive activity that keeps us human.
Pedestrians of the world, unite!
*City of Quartz*
One of those rare, quirky, rather lovable books that makes you look
anew at something so familiar ... Solnit winningly traces the
shifting cultural significance of putting one foot in front of
another
*Telegraph*
Thoughtful and fascinating
*Observer*
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