The Vintage Book Of Walking - Brossura

Minshull, Duncan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099565242 ISBN 13: 9780099565246

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2011

Riassunto

'It is good to collect things, but better to go on walks. ' Anatole France. A fundamental act, often taken for granted, yet through the centuries it has inspired a fascinating literature. This, the first comprehensive anthology on the subject, delves into why we walk and how we walk; the differences between the country hike and the city stroll; walking and wooing; walking into trouble and marching out. Then some of us will walk to meet the Maker. A mix of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and drama provides the reader with over two hundred booted authors. Xenophone and Baudelaire, Flora Thompson and Julian Barnes, Mark Twain and Roberto Calasso tramp the pages of this fascinating collection. (1999-10-05)

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We are committed to this simple act, or we do our best to avoid it. The Vintage Book of Walking celebrates some famous walks in world literature.

Selecting from fiction and non-fiction, poetry and drama, we follow in the footsteps of some remarkable pedestrian authors; adventurers and eccentrics who have 'footed it' in all ages, through all continents. We keep up with early walkers such as Xenophon and Dante, with restless Romantics such as Thoreau and Wordsworth, with later accounts from the likes of Virginia Woolf. Patrick Leigh Fermor, Ray Bradbury and Roberto Calasso. On the road ahead, the reader will be moved, amused and surprised by over two hundred voices - each attempting to say why, how and where they have made their tracks.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099565242
• ISBN 13: 9780099565246
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368