Wanderlust A History of Walking

Name: Wanderlust A History of Walking
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ISBN: 9780140286014

ISBN-10: 0140286012

ISBN-13: 9780140286014

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Rebecca Solnit

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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.56" wide x 8.45" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Rebecca Solnit writes extensively on photography and landscape. She is a contributing editor to Art Issues and Creative Camera and is the author of three books. She has contributed essays to several museum catalogues including Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach and the Whitney Museum's Beat Culture and the New America. She was a 1993 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.



Acknowledgments



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


Notes


Index


Sources for Foot Quotations