Main entry:

Solnit, Rebecca.

Title & Author:

Wanderlust : a history of walking / Rebecca Solnit.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2001.
©2000

Description:

x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
"First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2000."
Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-345), Sources for Foot Quotations (pages [333]-356, and index.
I. The Pace of thoughts, 1. Tracing a headland: an introduction -- 2. The mind at three miles an hour -- 3. Rising and falling: the theorists of bipedalism -- 4. The uphill road to grace: some pilgrimages -- 5. Labyrinths and Cadillacs: walking into the realm of the symbolic -- II. From the garden to the wild. 6. The path out of the garden -- 7. The legs of William Wordsworth -- 8. A thousand miles of conventional sentiment: the literature of walking -- 9. Mount obscurity and mount arrival -- 10. Of walking clubs and land wars -- III. Lives of the streets. 11. The solitary stroller and the city -- 12. Paris, or botanizing on the asphalt -- 13. Citizens of the streets: parties, processions, and revolutions -- 14. Walking after midnight: women, sex, and public space -- IV. Past the end of the road. 15. Aerobic Sisyphus and the suburbanized psyche -- 16. The shape of a walk -- 17. Las Vegas, or the longest distance between two points.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0140286012 (paperback)
9780140286014 (paperback)
(electronic bk.)
9780786523924
0786523921
9781101199558
1101199555

Subject:

Walking History.
Hiking History.
Voyages and travels.
Voyages.
journeys.
SCIENCE Life Sciences Human Anatomy & Physiology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology.
SPORTS & RECREATION Walking.
Sport.
Hiking
Walking

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254352
Call No.: GV199.5 .S65 2001
Status: Available