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Embodied Cartographies: Mineral Liquidities and Fluid Heritage in Bath (UK) and Guimarães (Portugal)
This paper explores Bath (UK) and Guimarães (Portugal) as UNESCO World Heritage Cities shaped by ancient mineral waters, using cross-disciplinary analysis of geology, archaeology, and history. Through walking the riverbank from Bath to Saltford, the study connects thermal waters, local deities, and embodied sensory experience to propose a nuanced, embodied approach to engaging with cultural heritage.
Life is travel, the case for the patron saint of walkers
The Vandals are at the gates. Augustine is deadly ill, spending his final days in prayer and repentance. Having coined the phrase "Solvitur ambulando", “it is solved by walking”, perhaps his ambulatory restlessness at the end of his life indirectly saved the city, as the Vandals initially retreated.
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31. Emma Jane Kirby, The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience
I picked up Emma Jane Kirby’s The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience in Otis and Clementine’s, the used bookstore/café/cat rescue I visited in Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia. I thought it might be a book at least tangentially related to walking–or perhaps walking-adjacent–because the refugees fleeing Afghanistan, Iraq, and … Continue reading 31. Emma Jane Kirby, The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience →
• Life is travel, the case for the patron saint of walkers
The Vandals are at the gates. Augustine is deadly ill, spending his final days in prayer and repentance. Having coined the phrase “Solvitur ambulando”, “it is solved by walking”, perhaps his ambulatory restlessness at the end of his life indirectly saved the city, as the Vandals initially retreated. But Augustine of Hippo, modern-day Annaba in …
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