Enjoying time and places, walking is an escape, a snub to modernity. It is a shortcut in the frantic pace of our lives, a good way to take a step back and sharpen your senses. Walking means thinking outside the box.
David Le Breton, sociologist and anthropologist of the body, has taken to the fields along well-trodden paths. In this literary stroll that invites us to stretch our legs, he mixes Pierre Sansot and Patrick Leigh Fermor in the pages, he brings Bashô and Stevenson into dialogue without concern for historical accuracy. It is simply a matter of walking together and exchanging impressions as if we were sitting around a table in a roadside inn in the evening, when fatigue and wine loosen our tongues.