![]() ![]() □ Back in the day the treadmill was used to punish prisoners sentenced to hard labor. 2/3 of American women are afraid to walk their neighborhood at night. Restrictions and risk of physical abuse has limited women’s access roaming freely. □ Walking has been much more accessible to men than women. Most of his philosophy was born during his long walks. □ Rousseau believed that the original man wandered the forests in solitude, living a simplistic life. □ About the car mentality of modern day America: “People seem to have a mental radius on how far they are willing to walk, and it’s shrinking.” ![]() Notes and Highlights from Wanderlust: A History of Walking ![]() It sounds kind of dry and boring but for some reason (and I can’t really put my finger on why), it kept my interest all the way through. Just to mention a few of the topics covered. In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit, explores walking’s influence on philosophizing/writing/thinking, women’s rights to roam freely, the “walking gardens” of leisure class, political marches and the automobilization of public spaces. Walking and it’s influence on the world and human thought The book is better described as a collection of musings and digressions around the subject of walking in the context of cultural history. Wanderlust tagline, A History of Walking, is a bit misleading because it feels very superficial as a history book. Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit ![]()
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