put on yer walkin shoes...

"Just what kind of a writer is Rebecca Solnit? It’s not an easy question to answer, given the effortless way she crosses the borders of disciplines and genres. Her irrepressible curiosity has led her to investigate and reflect on a diverse range of subjects: landscapes both rural and urban, politics, the environment, indigenous people, technology, gender, art, and photography." -- Peter Terzian, Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 2007.

Bipedalism, female connoisseurs of William Wordsworth's legs, the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery -- these are some of the images that inform the essays in this fabulous collection. Wanderlust is far too dense to read at once: check it out, read a chapter or two, and save the rest for later. Android.