A new review of Ways of Walking emphasizes how "walking is an exploration of ourselves as much as of the world." The reviewer, Antonia Malchik, author of A Walking Life, writes:
Walking is how we remind ourselves that we belong both in the world, and in our bodies. That those bodies are miraculous, and also highly politicized.
The review quotes appreciatively from several of the book's 26 essays, and Malchik finds that one of the book's passages, from contributor Ruth Knafo Setton, is written "more evocatively than an entire volume of Thoreau." The review concludes:
We are all just looking to be at home with this world. Even when that belonging is elusive, walking can lead us to find a home in our bodies and minds, within ourselves.
Many thanks to Ms. Malchik for this lovely review. Nice picture too!
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