5/28/2023 0 Comments Wanderlust by rebecca solnit![]() ![]() ![]() The author writes in her preface that the subject arose. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world. Like many other works of nonfiction, Wanderlust: A History of Walking is part history, part memoir. ![]() 1 Early life and education Solnit was born in 1961 2 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to a Jewish father and Irish Catholic mother. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. 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. Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer. 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. A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's RosesÄrawing 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. A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers, their routes and the act. ![]()
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