The Routledge International Handbook of Walking Hall C. Michael
The Routledge International Handbook of Walking Hall C. Michael Walking is an essentially human activity. Thoreau's 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at Grasmere in the…
Specifikacia The Routledge International Handbook of Walking Hall C. Michael
The Routledge International Handbook of Walking Hall C. Michael
Walking is an essentially human activity. Thoreau's 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at Grasmere in the early 19th Century, for example, helped create a philosophical foundation for the importance of the act of walking as an act of engagement with nature. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject.
More recently, walking has been embraced as a means of encouraging greater health and well-being, community improvement and more sustainable means of travel. Similarly, and sometimes inseparable from secular appreciation, pilgrimage trails provide opportunities for finding self and others in the travails of the walk. Yet despite the significance of the subject of walking there is as yet no integrated treatment of the