num_pages: 288
description: How we walk where we walk why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car or for long weekend hikes or as competition or as art walking is a profoundly universal aspect of what makes us humans social creatures and engaged with the world. Cultural commentator Whitbread Prize winner and author of Sex Collectors Geoff Nicholson offers his fascinating definitive and personal ruminations on the literature science philosophy art and history of walking.Nicholson finds people who walk only at night or naked or in the shape of a cross or a circle or for thousands of miles at a time in costume for causes or for no reason whatsoever. He examines the history and traditions of walking and its role as inspiration to artists musicians and writers like Bob Dylan Charles Dickens and Buster Keaton. In The Lost Art of Walking  he brings curiosity imagination and genuine insight to a subject that often strides shuffles struts or lopes right by us. 
language: English
title: The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism
publisher: Riverhead Hardcover