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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. A good mixture of the personal, a review of literature on the subject of walking and analysis. The chapter based approached means you can skip chapters you are not interested in, although some of them surprise you, so may be worth persevering with. For me the discussion about feminism and walking was particularly enjoyable and interesting. (  ) Tifi | Apr 10, 2009 |  After some early meandering, Solnit hits upon a "walking's greatest hits" kind of approach and takes us through the effects of walking on the human anatomy, the Wordsworthian ramble, the walk in Classical philosophy, the 19th-century mania for alpinism with its superheroes and the various politics of the clubs it inspired in the Teutonic and Anglo worlds, distance walking as extreme sport and site of self-investigation, women's walking as threat and patriarchy-regulated activity, walking as revolutionary activity, walking as space of dissent, walking as reclaimation of public space for the public and the tension with the urban walk as process of consumption, walking as blow against the tyranny of property. The death of walking, espied through the Las Vegas strip. Lots of good thinking, lots of fun trivia. A little bit too much airy abstraction, when surely just telling stories is the point of this thing, but enjoyable overall. ( ) booksfallapart | Mar 31, 2009 | Walking > History/Hiking > History/Voyages And Travels  Budz888 | Jun 1, 2008 | A review of the relationship between walking and thinking, and walking and culture. At times interesting, the topics meander between personal essay, philosophy, city design, literary criticism, and politics. The type of book you can dip into for a chapter or two. (  ) 100experiments | Feb 25, 2007 | Solnit has made her prose match her subject perfectly. She surveys her subject widely and intelligently. She captures the essence of what I love about wandering and exploring, both on the ground and between the pages. (  ) teacart | Nov 24, 2006 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Rebecca Solnit, a thoughtful writer and spirited walker, takes her readers on a leisurely journey through the prehistory, history, and natural history of bipedal motion. Walking, she observes, affords its practitioners an immediate reward--the ability to observe the world at a relaxed gait, one that allows us to take in sights, sounds, and smells that we might otherwise pass by. It provides a vehicle for much-needed solitude and private thought. For the health-minded, walking affords a low-impact and usually pleasant way of shedding a few pounds and stretching a few muscles. It is an essential part of the human adventure--and one that has, until now, been too little documented.
Written in a time when landscapes and cities alike are designed to accommodate automobiles and not pedestrians, Solnit's extraordinary book is an enticement to lace up shoes and set out on an aimless, meditative stroll of one's own. --Gregory McNamee
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