She moves easily from discussing theories of early human skeletal structure's evolution to detailing how the SierraĬlub formed. Her own stories of trailblazing with profiles of noteworthy walkers like Kierkegaard and Wordsworth. Walking and landscape, the democratic tradition of resistance and revolution, the more ancient history of pilgrimage and walking to achieve spiritual goals.'' Solnit mulls over the annals of walking, intermingling ''It was a revelation to me, the way this act of walking throughĪ desert and across a cattle guard into the forbidden zone could articulate political meaning.'' She began a journey, exploring histories - not only of the development of the West but of the Romantic taste for Solnit, the author of ''Savage Dreams''Īnd ''A Book of Migrations,'' began meditating on walking when she was part of a demonstration at a Nevada nuclear testing site. Rebecca Solnit's ''Wanderlust'' describes the childlike sense of discovery one receives as a pedestrian considering the slowly unfolding surroundings. He beauty of walking lies in its promise of possibility - that even in the most familiar, well-trodden paths something exciting and new can appear.
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