Wanderlust : a history of walking

Summary: Discusses walking as a political, social, and aesthetic act, exploring its history and how famous walkers such as Wordsworth, Socrates, and Jane Austen's characters used it, and explains the necessity of walking instead of always driving and hurrying.

Item details

ISBN: 0670882097
ISBN: 9780670882090
ISBN: 9780965014403
ISBN: 0965014401
ISBN: 0140286012
ISBN: 9780140286014
Physical Description: print
viii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Viking, ©2000.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-318) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Pace of Thoughts -- Tracing a Headland: An Introduction -- The Mind at Three Miles an Hour -- Rising and Falling: The Theorists of Bipedalism -- The Uphill Road to Grace: Some Pilgrimages -- Labyrinths and Cadillacs: Walking into the Realm of the Symbolic -- From the Garden to the Wild -- The Path Out of the Garden -- The Legs of William Wordsworth -- A Thousand Miles of Conventional Sentiment: The Literature of Walking -- Mount Obscurity and Mount Arrival -- Of Walking Clubs and Land Wars -- Lives of the Streets -- The Solitary Stroller and the City -- Paris, or Botanizing on the Asphalt -- Citizens of the Streets: Parties, Processions, and Revolutions -- Walking After Midnight: Women, Sex, and Public Space -- Past the End of the Road -- Aerobic Sisyphus and the Suburbanized Psyche -- The Shape of a Walk -- Las Vegas, or the Longest Distance Between Two Points.