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We are back open six days a week, with the whole store open for browsing. Order your copy today directly from October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get commission on your purchase. A meandering conversation on walking, activism, and embodiment. Profound and provocative, Wanderlust invites us to look afresh at the rich, varied, often radical interplay of the body, the imagination, and the world when walking. Touching on the philosophers of Ancient Greece, the Romantic poets, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet, André Beton's Nadja, and more, Rebecca Solnit considers what forms of pleasure and freedom walkers have sought at different times. People would walk frequently and voluntarily for their own pleasure like by making a date for a walk. Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnitįrom pilgrimages to protest marches, mountaineering to meandering, this modern classic weaves together numerous histories to trace a range of possibilities for the most basic act. In the essay Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche by Rebecca Solnit, she believes walking was so valuable in the past because walking was a sort of sacrament and a routine recreation.
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