Every day until Antwerp
Subtitle: a walking trip along the railway line = Alle dagen tot aan Antwerpen  : een voetreis langs the treinspoor
By: Jacqueline Schoemaker
Publisher: Jap SAM Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Prinsenbeek
Language: eng; dut
ISBN-13: 9789492852250
Subjects: Description and travel
Other titles: Alle dagen tot aan Antwerpen  :; Alle dagen tot aan Antwerpen
Description: Every Day until Antwerp' is a literary travel journey about a walking trip from Amsterdam to Antwerp, along the railway line of the old Benelux train that by now has ceased to be. Determined not to go home at the end of a day?s walking but to camp on the land that up till then she had only known as an image seen through the train window, Jacqueline Schoemaker set off, pulling a tent and a sleeping bag in a shopping trolley behind her. She walked in this way from the city where she lives to the city where she grew up.00Against a background of geographical, commercial and political borders (The River Hollands Diep/the fence round a campsite/the national border), the informal, personal use of space of the traveller becomes more and more perceptible: What is it like to traverse the territory of Schiphol Airport on foot? Or to have a wash in the bushes along the motorway? 'Every Day until Antwerp' is an exercise in appropriating (public) space, an exercise which, through discomfort and confrontation, ultimately leads to a sense of autonomy.
Notes: English and Dutch versions are bound back to back and upside down.