Wanderlust

I know I gave this five stars, but I do have to get my one problem with this book out of the way. Wanderlust, in all that it manages to cover, does not even mention Japanese haibun, a literary form that merges short prose and haiku. This is important because many of these writings came out of long w......more

Thanks to my upbringing, to summers in the woods and weekend forest walks all year long with Father and the dog, I've always enjoyed walking, particularly in nature, especially over new terrain, but even through the neighborhoods of cities. Thanks to the ageing of my peers and, with such, their incr......more

I labored through it. I am a walking addict, and expected a more personal connection with the author. While Ms. Solnit did include numerous examples of personal walks, I was not able to hang with her and see the countryside, inner or outer. This is more a book about philosophers and famous literary......more

Phenomenal. Discursive, well-read, full of broad and rambling scholarship. Some chapters are literary criticism, some scientific, some urban planning history, some religious. One heartbreaking moment made me realize the book was published in precisely 2000—no later, no earlier. Less personal than A......more

Znak da je ovo dobra istorija hodanja jeste što je samo čitanje poput njega – inspirativno kretanje kroz tekst koje ima odličnog vodiča. Rebeka Solnit je u svom vodičkom poduhvatu suverena – izuzetno temeljna i potkovana, vešto prepliće more podataka sa ličnim iskustvom, koje dodatno oživljava ono o......more