Main entry:

Solnit, Rebecca.

Title & Author:

Wanderlust : a history of walking / Rebecca Solnit.

Publication:

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 2001.

Description:

x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-318) and index.
I. The Pace of Thoughts 1 -- 1. Tracing a Headland: An Introduction 3 -- 2. The Mind at Three Miles an Hour 14 -- 3. Rising and Falling: The Theorists of Bipedalism 30 -- 4. The Uphill Road to Grace: Some Pilgrimages 45 -- 5. Labyrinths and Cadillacs: Walking into the Realm of the Symbolic 64 -- II. From the Garden to the Wild 79 -- 6. The Path Out of the Garden 81 -- 7. The Legs of William Wordsworth 104 -- 8. A Thousand Miles of Conventional Sentiment: The Literature of Walking 118 -- 9. Mount Obscurity and Mount Arrival 133 -- 10. Of Walking Clubs and Land Wars 148 -- III. Lives of the Streets 169 -- 11. The Solitary Stroller and the City 171 -- 12. Paris, or Botanizing on the Asphalt 196 -- 13. Citizens of the Streets: Parties, Processions, and Revolutions 214 -- 14. Walking After Midnight: Women, Sex, and Public Space 232 -- IV. Past the End of the Road 247 -- 15. Aerobic Sisyphus and the Suburbanized Psyche 249 -- 16. The Shape of a Walk 267 -- 17. Las Vegas, or the Longest Distance Between Two Points 277.

Summary:

"In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories -- of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores -- to create a portrait of the range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history signifies walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit hones in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of the mountaineers." "Solnit's book finds a profound relationship between walking and thinking, walking and culture, and argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in an evermore automobile-dependent and accelerated world. Book jacket."--Jacket

ISBN:

0140286012 (paperback)
9780140286014 (paperback)
(electronic bk.)
9780786523924
(electronic bk.)
0786523921
(electronic bk.)
9781101199558
(electronic bk.)
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
Paris (France) Description and travel
San Francisco (Calif.) Description and travel.
Las Vegas (Nev.) Description and travel.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
History

Holdings:

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