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发表于2024-11-03
The Lost Art of Walking pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator.
Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex Collectors, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most common of activities—walking. This simple, omnipresent activity has inspired numerous subcultures, literary and artistic legacies, sporting events, personal memories, epic journeys, mystical revelations, and scandals.
It’s a rich tradition that embraces such novelists as Charles Dickens and Paul Auster, musicians like Robert Johnson and Bob Dylan, and moviemakers from Buster Keaton to Werner Herzog. But it’s also a tradition that includes obsessives and eccentrics, such as the artist Mudman, who coats his body in mud and then walks the city streets; competitive pedestrians such as Captain Barclay, who walked one mile an hour for a thousand successive hours; and gang members who use the hidden language of the “Crip Walk” to spell out messages in the dirt with their scuffing. How we walk, where we walk, why we walk announces who and what we are.
Geoff Nicholson is a master chronicler of the hidden subversive twists on a seemingly normal activity. He analyzes the hows, wheres, and whys of walking through the ages. He finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. Here, he brings curiosity and genuine insight to a subject that often walks right past us.
Geoff Nicholson is the author of twenty books, including Sex Collectors, Hunters and Gatherers, The Food Chain, and Bleeding London, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. He divides his time between Los Angeles and London
"房屋,关不住我,脚不出门踩踩泥土,我不会快乐。" -- 梭罗 听说陈水扁第二次被羁押后,不再以泪洗面,“干了又湿,湿了又干”了。放风时间,陈水扁穿着拖鞋在散步。如果陈水扁不幸被判无期,这下有事干了。1954年9月,纳粹战犯、希特勒的军需部长、首席建筑师艾尔伯特•斯...
評分今期《經濟學人》有一篇書評,介紹一本關於走路的書: 路我每天都會走,但沒想過走路竟有如此多的有趣資料! 先說走路的歷史,原來第一次世界大戰時,英軍要服用含可卡因的「強步丸」(forced march tablet),讓他們可以走更遠的路。 至於走路的科學,現今似乎離不開減肥。到...
評分今期《經濟學人》有一篇書評,介紹一本關於走路的書: 路我每天都會走,但沒想過走路竟有如此多的有趣資料! 先說走路的歷史,原來第一次世界大戰時,英軍要服用含可卡因的「強步丸」(forced march tablet),讓他們可以走更遠的路。 至於走路的科學,現今似乎離不開減肥。到...
評分今期《經濟學人》有一篇書評,介紹一本關於走路的書: 路我每天都會走,但沒想過走路竟有如此多的有趣資料! 先說走路的歷史,原來第一次世界大戰時,英軍要服用含可卡因的「強步丸」(forced march tablet),讓他們可以走更遠的路。 至於走路的科學,現今似乎離不開減肥。到...
評分今期《經濟學人》有一篇書評,介紹一本關於走路的書: 路我每天都會走,但沒想過走路竟有如此多的有趣資料! 先說走路的歷史,原來第一次世界大戰時,英軍要服用含可卡因的「強步丸」(forced march tablet),讓他們可以走更遠的路。 至於走路的科學,現今似乎離不開減肥。到...
The Lost Art of Walking pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024