Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit (2001)

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Solnit has written not so much a history of walking as a history of things she thought of while walking. Sometimes the link to walking is clear, but it is more often tenuous and driven by Solnit’s own serendipity. What she ends up writing about is sometimes interesting, sometimes tedious, and often tendentious. If you’re interested in a ramble through Solnit’s interests and opinions stimulated by her strolls this will satisfy, but expect to wander off the expected path often.