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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: This looks at walking from a philosophical point of view. There are many viewpoints on something so ordinarily extraordinary but this did not address the questions I had about walking for reasons other than contemplation. However, this is a lovely piece of work in other ways although I did find the quotes at the bottom distracting. If you are an intellectual or want to be one, read this book.
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Summary: Guide book to the restless
Review: When I picked up this book at the local bookstore it was an impulse. But after reading this book i found that it was exactly what I had been looking for. All my life I have been using walking as my way to unwind from school or just to vent some frustration. It seemed to reaffirm what I thought was my true path and showed my some ways to keep the trip long. If you are the person who walks for the sake of walking or to focus your thoughts it's for you. If you are the type who does it to exersise or something else then im not so sure but all around its a good read for everyone.
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Summary: Not pedestrian at all
Review: When I walk, which is often, I like the serendipity of the experience, the unknown that meets me, the new perspective that greets me, the unexpected that grows from the experience. Reading this book has been like a walk.At times I was enthused at what I read (on how Las Vegas is becoming more of a walker's world). At times I was encumbered with laborious literary chronicling of walkers and walking (the writings of Rousseau and Wordsworth). At times I was ecstatic with a simple relationship (the mind at three miles per hour). At times I was educated (the role of walking in the Paris revolutions). And at times I was given a new perspective (how women have dealt with the male's use of walking to control them). While not quite knowing what to expect when I first saw this book, I thought it would be a great read because a history of something so common as walking could be so interesting. And this book is that. The author looks at the relationship between walking and thinking, between walking and culture, between walking and history, between walking and nature. And she delves into the interplay between walking and how the body uses it to jar the imagination and creativity to enable the walker to see the world around her in a different way. The book drags at parts because I don't have a particular interest in that subject, just like at times a walk will become tedious. But, overall, this book is much like a walk: a discovery by accident.
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