WANDERLUST: A HISTORY OF WALKING (PB)

What does it mean to walk, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? Rebecca Solnit draws from diverse sources to explore the possibilities of this most basic act. With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - Wordsworth and Gary Snyder, Rousseau and Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet and Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker.