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Main Entry - Personal Name	Solnit, Rebecca,
Title Statement	Wanderlust : a history of walking
Varying Form of Title	History of walking.
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)	Penguin Books, New York : 2000.
	2001
	Språk: Engelska.
Dewey Decimal Classification Number	796.51
SAB Classification Code	Rbo
Physical Description	x, 326 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography, etc. Note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index.
Subject - Topical Term	Walking Hiking Voyages and travels.
ISBN	0-14-028601-2 (pbk.) 0-670-88209-7 (hbk.)
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A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses

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.

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
The Pace of Thoughtsp. 1

Tracing a Headland: An Introductionp. 3
The Mind at Three Miles an Hourp. 14
Rising and Falling: The Theorists of Bipedalismp. 30
The Uphill Road to Grace: Some Pilgrimagesp. 45
Labyrinths and Cadillacs: Walking into the Realm of the Symbolicp. 64

From the Garden to the Wildp. 79

The Path Out of the Gardenp. 81
The Legs of William Wordsworthp. 104
A Thousand Miles of Conventional Sentiment: The Literature of Walkingp. 118
Mount Obscurity and Mount Arrivalp. 133
Of Walking Clubs and Land Warsp. 148

Lives of the Streetsp. 169

The Solitary Stroller and the Cityp. 171
Paris, or Botanizing on the Asphaltp. 196
Citizens of the Streets: Parties, Processions, and Revolutionsp. 214
Walking After Midnight: Women, Sex, and Public Spacep. 232

Past the End of the Roadp. 247

Aerobic Sisyphus and the Suburbanized Psychep. 249
The Shape of a Walkp. 267
Las Vegas, or the Longest Distance Between Two Pointsp. 277

Notesp. 293
Indexp. 319
Sources for Foot Quotationsp. 325