![]() To use a walking metaphor, it trespasses through everybody else’s field-through anatomy, anthropology, architecture, gardening, geography, political and cultural history, literature, sexuality, religious studies-and doesn’t stop in any of them on its long route. This history of walking is an amateur history, just as walking is an amateur act.To make walking into an investigation, a ritual, a meditation, is a special subset of walking, physiologically like and philosophically unlike the way the mail carrier brings the mail and the office worker reaches the train. Most of the time walking is merely practical, the unconsidered locomotive means between two sites.Quotes Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001) 1.2 A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005).1.1 Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001). ![]()
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