Wanderlust (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Rebecca Solnit
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History, philosophy, and memoirs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, History
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Social sciences, Natural history, Walking
Did the large brain of Homo sapiens, enclosed in its bony case and balanced quite improbably on top of the column of the body, develop before or after the species began to walk erect? What is the relationship between bipedalism—walking on two feet—and the development of human communities? One might expect these questions to be the concern of anthropologists and scientists exploring the nature of evolution, but it is a measure of the scope of Rebecca Solnit’s curious and lively survey of the history of walking that the ordinary reader can traverse the distance between the...
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