5/27/2023 0 Comments Wanderlust book rebecca solnit![]() ![]() ![]() Hers is a sinuous course propelled by abandon yet guided by a firm intelligence. She joyfully trespasses across disciplines and genres, tracing a path through philosophy, palaeontology, politics, religion, and literary criticism. She doesn’t press on towards a goal but savours detail and varied perspectives, considering the nature of mountaineering, the life of the London streetwalker, the conflict of public rights of way and private property in England and the USA. H Auden’s poem ‘Walks’ is, and probably always will be, the most succinct addition to this series on literature related to walks and walking(by the way I should add here that Auden wrote the libretto for Glyndebourne’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’, the composer being Stravinsky and the set designer, David Hockney), then Rebecca Solnit’s book on walking(reissued recently in paperback), relishes the nearly encyclopaedic task she sets for herself. ![]()
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