![]() ![]() She once loved a man who was like the desert. Rebecca Solnit's essays in A Field Guide to Getting Lost deepen the experience of wandering, as she melds the natural with the philosophical. The book is illustrated with lovely woodcuts even the note on the typeface (Trinité) is charming. Gros writes about the process of self-liberation as one walks, and ruminates on escape, pilgrimage, urban gardens and famous walkers like Kant (every day at 5 p.m. Walking is good for the soul, as well as the body. Score! Wandering pays off, as does strolling, sauntering, rambling and being an urban flâneur-all ways of walking that Frédéric Gros meditates on in A Philosophy of Walking. It was on my to-read list and it was on a sale table. Last week I was in a store to see Andrew Sean Greer (author of the marvelous Less), and on my way to the back spotted Sybille Bedford's memoir Quicksands. ![]() My recent browsing forays (recounted here and here) have been fun wandering through a bookstore with no intent other than discovery is a pleasure. ![]()
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