The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

by Matthew Beaumont

Book Overview

From Dickensian London to today's megacities--what urban walking tells us about modern life

There is no such thing as a false step. Every time we walk we are going somewhere. Especially if we are going nowhere. Moving around the modern city is not a way of getting from A to B, but of understanding who and where we are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont retraces episodes in the history of the walker since...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788738918
• ISBN13: 9781788738910
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.3"