Walking as a subject with a history, which nobody had really tried before. Solnit runs from bipedalism through the peripatetic philosophers, the invention of the country walk as recreation, Wordsworth and the Romantics, pilgrimage, the labyrinth, mountaineering, the flâneur, protest marches and the Suffragettes, and the way suburbs and cars have made walking difficult or suspicious in most of America. There’s a hard chapter on walking while female and what a woman alone at night is assumed to be. It’s a book of connections and the connections are the pleasure.
Wanderlust: A History of Walking