EAN: 9781788738910

THE WALKER - MATTHEW BEAUMONT GEBUNDEN

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 from 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. He asks can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people
walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal
metropolis? What connects walking  philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or
ourselves - by taking the pavement?

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