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In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature

3.78 (429 ratings by Goodreads)

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By (author): Torbjorn Ekelund Torbjrn Ekelund

Translated by: Becky L. Crook


What [Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk ones way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest... A key strategy for finding ourselves, then, is to first get lost.The New York Times Book Review

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 walkeverywhereafter 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 again?

A charming read, celebrating the relationship between humans and their bodies, their landscapes, and one another.
The Washington Post


This book was made possible in part thanks to generous support from NORLA.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 133 x 191mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: Greystone BooksCanada
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781771649957

About Torbjorn EkelundTorbjrn Ekelund

Torbjørn Ekelund is a writer author and co-founder of Harvest an online magazine documenting wilderness adventures environmental issues and our relationship with nature. He lives in Oslo Norway. Geoff Nicholson is the author of multiple books including The Lost Art of Walking. His writings have appeared in the New York Times and the Guardian amongst others and he is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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