A review by schopflin
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit

slow-paced

3.0

Solnit is neither a psychogeographer nor a historian. While there is some history here, much of it fascinating, this is a ponderous book of essays on topics more or less related to walking. There were many insights but I did find she took a long time to say everything. It may be that some of the things that seem obvious, for example about women walking and suburbanisation, only seem so because of this book's influence over the last 20 years. Not an unalloyed pleasure but glad I have finally read it.