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? There is no such thing as the wrong step;
every time we walk we are going somewhere. 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
including Edgar Allen Poe, Andrew Breton, H G Wells, Virginia
Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury. As the author shows, the act of
walking is one of escape, self-discovery, disappearances and
potential revolution, and explores the relationship between the
metropolis and its pedestrian life.
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