Wanderlust - by Rebecca Solnit (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Profiling some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction, Solnit presents a delightful and brilliantly conceived meditation on the art of walking.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of the memoir <i>Recollections of My Nonexistence</i></b> <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Solnit is an elegant essayist . . . [she] joyfully trespasses across disciplines and genres, tracing a path through philosophy, paleontology, politics, religion, and literary criticism.<br> <b><i>--The New York Times</i></b> <p/> A tour de force . . . Solnit, a writer of unflagging grace, has a remarkable ability to wrest meaning from the mundane.<br> <b><i>--San Francisco Chronicle </i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including <i>Hope in the Dark</i>, <i>River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West</i>, <i>Wanderlust: A History of Walking</i>, and <i>As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art</i>, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award.
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