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The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

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The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City - Beaumont, Matthew
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"Whether one considers Dickens's insomniac night-time perambulations or restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today's neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Andr???e Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life"--

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The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City 2021, Verso

ISBN-13: 9781788738927

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The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City 2020, Verso

ISBN-13: 9781788738910

Hardcover