The walker : on losing and finding yourself in the modern city
Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-2021
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There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont, retraces a history of the walker. From Charles Dicken's insomniac night rambles to wandering through the faceless, windswept monuments of the neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of escape, self-discovery, disappearances and potential revolution. Pacing stride for stride alongside such literary amblers and thinkers as Edgar Allen Poe, Andrew Breton, H G Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, Matthew Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life.
Main title:
The walker : on losing and finding yourself in the modern city / Matthew Beaumont.
Author:
Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-, author
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2021.
Collation:
336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781788738927 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2538789
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