Author: Nicholson, Geoff

A master cultural commentator investigates the history, science, philosophy, art and literature of walking. While it might appear that no topic could be more pedestrian, Nicholson finds people who walk only at night, naked, in costume, for thousands of miles at a time, for causes, for no reason whatsoever. Chronicling walkers through the ages, from celebrities like Charles Dickens, Buster Keaton and Bob Dylan to little-known obsessives and eccentrics, he demonstrates that how, where, and why we walk announces unmistakably who we are.