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A review by davemmett
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz
4.0
This was a pretty unique book. Alexandra walks around New York City (and a few other places) with a bunch of different experts, then explains all the new things she notices/learns from the perspective they bring to the walk.
Outside of the context of 'walking around cities with people', this book would just be a random collection of interesting things - what you can learn about people by how they walk, how dogs 'see' the world through their sense of smell, and the migration patterns of insects, among other equally random things. But she manages to pull the whole thing together and it works.
Outside of the context of 'walking around cities with people', this book would just be a random collection of interesting things - what you can learn about people by how they walk, how dogs 'see' the world through their sense of smell, and the migration patterns of insects, among other equally random things. But she manages to pull the whole thing together and it works.