It leaves us free to think without being wholly lost in our thoughts.’ Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. Solnit mentions that ‘Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord. With her book she guides us down a series of paths that cross physical territories and those of the mind an intertwining of planes that evokes precisely what happens when set out for a stroll. Solnit clarifies that what she presents in the book is a story, but not the story of this activity.
Her book explores the act of walking, something that is impossible to encompass, but since the subject has no end, and neither does its practice, we are all partakers.
Wanderlust: A History of Walking is the most recent book by American author and winner of the Guggenheim’s National Critic’s Circle, Rebecca Solnit.
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