Wanderlust: A History of Walking

What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a protest march or a pilgrimage? In this modern classic Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. From the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the great ascents of mountaineers; from the hills of England to the Las Vegas Strip; from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to André Breton's Nadja, Wanderlust offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination and the world.