If walking supplies “the unpredictable incidents . . . that add up to a life,” Solnit writes, anyone dissuaded from it is denied a “vast portion of their humanity.”
In it, she traces walking’s relationship to culture and politics, studying the ambles of poets, philosophers, revolutionaries, and, in a remarkable chapter, women fighting for the right to wander and muse as men do, without hoop skirts or scandal. Recently, I ordered Rebecca Solnit’s “ Wanderlust” on Amazon, which, in retrospect, seems a violation of the book’s instruction to walk in the world, where you can “find what you don’t know you are looking for.” It was February in New York, and I had been existing in what Solnit calls “a series of interiors-home, car, gym, office, shops.” (Minus the gym, naturally).
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