Wanderlust : A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit

Wanderlust : A History of Walking by Rebecca SolnitWhat does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have

god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans

a famous writer

meets young James Joyce on a summer’s day in Dublin

When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire

Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction and notes by S

When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife

and on 21 November 1920

we expect medicine to uphold the principles of evidence and impartiality

scholarly study covers important historical events

Yeats's Collected Poems

Like chancing upon an oasis

but her role is fixed