A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health And Our Freedom One Step at a Time

In this tribute to walking, author Antonia Malchik investigates the history of this bipedal practice and investigates the role that walking plays in our current historical and cultural moment. This current day and age - with our reliance on cars and our increasingly sedentary ways, as well as the increasing class stratification that governs where folks get to live, what is in walking distance, and how walkable a neighborhood is in the first place - poses some difficult questions about our development as a species. When did this fundamental human activity become a privilege (or a hardship) and what does the reorientation of our transportation culture around the automobile mean for the future of walking? For a thoughtful analysis of these questions and more, look no further than this book. 

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