<![CDATA[The Lost Art of Walking]]>

false <![CDATA[The Lost Art of Walking]]> 3412881 3 A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex Collectors, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most common of activities—walking. This simple, omnipresent activity has inspired numerous subcultures, literary and artistic legacies, sporting events, personal memories, epic journeys, mystical revelations, and scandals. It’s a rich tradition that embraces such novelists as Charles Dickens and Paul Auster, musicians like Robert Johnson and Bob Dylan, and moviemakers from Buster Keaton to Werner Herzog. But it’s also a tradition that includes obsessives and eccentrics, such as the artist Mudman, who coats his body in mud and then walks the city streets; competitive pedestrians such as Captain Barclay, who walked one mile an hour for a thousand successive hours; and gang members who use the hidden language of the “Crip Walk” to spell out messages in the dirt with their scuffing. How we walk, where we walk, why we walk announces who and what we are. Geoff Nicholson is a master chronicler of the hidden subversive twists on a seemingly normal activity. He analyzes the hows, wheres, and whys of walking through the ages. He finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. Here, he brings curiosity and genuine insight to a subject that often walks right past us. 3453143 27 11 2008 The Lost Art of Walking total:67|5:6|4:13|3:33|2:13|1:2| 67 209 209 29 5 2 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 08:49:31 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 09:16:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 18:57:12 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 19:01:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 09 11:59:17 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 12:05:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 23:21:59 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 22:08:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 11:51:55 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 08:24:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 16:08:22 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 13:42:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 18:09:49 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 02:56:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 14 22:35:16 -0800 2009 Thu Sep 10 10:04:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 09:47:49 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 09:50:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 13:56:19 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:43:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 10:42:39 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 10:44:49 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 20:20:53 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 20:24:25 -0700 2009 ]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 14:39:48 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 08:46:16 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 13:54:22 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 13:55:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 18:54:10 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 18:57:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 16 12:52:45 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 10:35:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 06:03:01 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 06:04:29 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 21 09:22:38 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 09:23:20 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 10:23:39 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 10:24:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Dec 30 16:40:21 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 16:41:04 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3412881