num_pages: 256
description: A philosophical history of that strange but prolific hybridthe writer as walker From the peripatetic philosophers of Ancient Greece to the streets of 20th-century London Paris and New York the figure of writer as walker has continued to evolve through the centuries the philosopher and the Romantic giving way to the experimentalist and radical. From pilgrim to pedestrian flneur to stalker the names may change but the activity of walking remains constant creating a literary tradition encompassing philosophy and poetry the novel and the manifesto; a tradition which this book explores in detail. Today as the figure of the wanderer returns to the forefront of the public imagination writers and walkers around the world are reengaging with the ideas which animated earlier generationsfor the walker is once again on the march mapping new territory and recording new visions of the landscape.
language: English
title: The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker
publisher: Oldcastle Books