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The art of wandering : the writer as walker / Merlin Coverley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coverley, Merlin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geography--Psychological aspects.
- Geography.
- Geographical perception in literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Harpenden [England] : Oldcastle Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the peripatetic philosophers of Ancient Greece to the streets of twenty-first century London, Paris and New York, this figure has evolved through the centuries, the philosopher and the Romantic giving way to the experimentalist and radical.
- Contents:
- The writer as walker
- The walker as philosopher
- The walker as pilgrim
- The imaginary walker
- The walker as vagrant
- The walker and the natural world
- The walker as visionary
- The flaneur
- Experimental walking
- The return of the walker.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-[248]) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781842436417
- 1842436414
- 9781842436400
- 1842436406
- OCLC:
- 829461506
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