Walking, for those with functional lower limbs, is the most natural thing to do, and if we make it an artful practice it will exercise our higher faculties and turn us into superior beings. So argues the author of Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act, a former journalist and sports writer who recently converted to walking as a way of life. An avid runner until knee surgery forced him to slow down, Dan Rubinstein discovers a therapy not just for his own recovery but for a humanity in need of a cure for the diseases of sedentary modernity. With its argument that technologies that diminish our penchant for walking inevitably derail our evolutionary trajectory, Born to Walk is a book on a mission to get us back on track to what we were created to be.
A born-again walker, Rubinstein organizes eight chapters around themes that reveal the diverse and...
Dianne Chisholm has known the physical, mental, social, political, creative and erotic joys of long walks in open country (Baffin Island, Patagonia, Mongolia) and short marches in big cities (London’s Take Back the Night, San Francisco’s Pride), as well parades down high street (with the Edmonton All Girls’ Drum & Bugle Band).
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