Translated by John HoweBy walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history … The freedom in walking lies…
Source: A Philosophy of Walking | Frédéric Gros | London Review Bookshop
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Babak Fakhamzadeh
Oh hooray – another walking book by a man about the same group of walking men! How about a review of Waymakers https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/way-makers or Windswept https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/windswept-walking-the-paths-of-trailblazing-women/ for a little balance?
Hi Tamsin, I’m writing a review of Windswept now- has taken me a while – but I loved it. Thanks for the recommendation. Annemarie 🙂
Heheheh. You know you can suggest books for inclusion at the link below, yeah?
https://walklistencreate.org/suggest-a-book/
Way makers already made it onto our bookshelves a while back:
https://walklistencreate.org/book/way-makers-an-anthology-of-womens-writing-about-walking/
I just now aded Windswept:
https://walklistencreate.org/book/windswept/
(Oddly, I only got a notification of your comment seconds before I got a notification of Annemarie’s response.)