"It is only ideas gained from Walking that have any worth." --Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking , a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frederic Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B - the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble - and reveals what they say about us.
On his travels he ponders Thoreau\'s eager seclusion in Walden Wo.
Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw Walking as something central to their practice. "It is only ideas gained from Walking that have any worth." --Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking , a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frederic Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B - the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble - and reveals what they say about us