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Carregando... In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature (original: 2018; edição: 2020)de Torbjørn Ekelund (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Ekelund's perambulations inspire him to write down the kind of trite, simplistic observations that sound like fortune-cookie wisdom ("Regardless of how rapidly one walks, it will always be at a much slower pace than someone who is running or driving a car"; "Everything that happens must happen in a place"). Along the way he surmises that crows can see nearly the entire forest from high up in the trees, and he tells us so. By citing Rebecca Solnit and Bruce Chatwin, he inadvertently reminds us of what a good writer could do with similar material. A beautiful, poetic take on the role of walking trails in the human experience. When walking unexpectedly becomes Ekelund’s primary mode of transport, he rediscovers the many joys and benefits of a walking life. He shares personal stories of the paths of his Norwegian childhood and tells of how they have shaped him into the human he is today. An ode to bipedalism, In Praise of Paths will appeal equally to both the armchair traveller and the avid hiker. The time Ekelund is remembering is childhood and from that time a path that he loved as a child. As an adult in his forties, he was diagnosed with epilepsy and can no longer drive. So he began to walk. He was haunted (in a good way) by memories of that path, and the book is shaped around the question of whether that path, as he remembered it, would still exist, but in the meantime we go on walking adventures from his young adulthood and from his new present. Some are very amusing, some are more serious, all are thoughtful. If you love to walk, if you love paths, you will enjoy reading Ekelund's experiences and insights. **** Do you remember some of the paths you followed as a child? I do. The author says, "Childhood paths are recollections of the body's contact with the outside world." Paths aren't scenic routes or a planned road: "A path is the least possible encroachment upon nature. It belongs there, as a natural part of the terrain." Torbjorn Ekelun believes "we have an inherent urge to wander that we seldom think about but that we are reminded of every time we follow a path." He also explores the more abstract meaning of paths: "We think of a path as the way to something else, toward the future and whatever lies ahead. But a path also points backward, to the time and the place we came from ... We walk through the landscape that has formed us and the people who have formed us and those who came before us, through work and leisure time, curiosity, and escape." sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped driving and rediscovered the joys of traveling by foot. Torbjørn Ekelund started to walk-everywhere-after an epilepsy diagnosis affected his ability to drive. The more he ventured out, the more he came to love the act of walking, and an interest in paths emerged. In this poignant, meandering book, Ekelund interweaves the literature and history of paths with his own stories from the trail. As he walks with shoes on and barefoot, through forest creeks and across urban streets, he contemplates the early tracks made by ancient snails and traces the wanderings of Romantic poets, amongst other musings. If we still "understand ourselves in relation to the landscape," Ekelund asks, then what do we lose in an era of car travel and navigation apps? And what will we gain from taking to paths once ag Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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