The Lost Art of Walking The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism

by Nicholson, Geoff

• ISBN13: 9781594489983
• ISBN10: 159448998X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-20
• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover

Summary

The author of "Bleeding London" and "Sex Collectors" turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most common of activities--walking. This fascinating rumination by a skilled cultural commentator analyzes the hows, wheres, and whys of walking through the ages.

Author Biography

Geoff Nicholson is the author of twenty books, including Sex Collectors, Hunters and Gatherers, The Food Chain, and Bleeding London, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.

Table of Contents

An Introduction: The Lost Art of Falling Down, When Bad Things Happen to Good Walkers, Some Fellow Travelers and Fellow Stumblers	p. 1
Los Angeles: Walking Wounded with Ray and Phil and Others	p. 33
Eccentrics, Obsessives, Artists: Walks with Richard Long, Captain Barclay, et al	p. 61
Nicholson's London, Your London, Anybody's London	p. 86
As I Tripped Out One Morning: Music, Movement, Movies	p. 114
A Man Walks into a Bar: New York, the Shape of the City, Down Among the Psychogeographers and Mixologists	p. 142
Some Desert Walkers, Walking In and Out of Nature, with and without God	p. 172
The Walking Photograph	p. 196
Walking Home and Away from Home	p. 217
Perfect and Imperfect Walks, Last Walks, the Walks We Didn't Take	p. 241
A Walking Bibliography	p. 259
Acknowledgments	p. 275
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