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A Walking Life
A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time | Antonia Malchik
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For readers of On Trails: an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we've designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we reembrace it "I'm going for a walk." How (…more)
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Thndrstd
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A well-researched book about the importance of walking in people‘s lives. We have damaged our lives & planet relying on cars to get us around, building our spaces to cater to cars rather than feet. This book shows the import of walking on our mental, physical, & spiritual health, how economic & racial disparity are worsened by the lack of walkable spaces, & how disability presents such an obstacle in even walkable places like NYC. Recommended.

charl08 Sounds great! 4y
The_Penniless_Author You aren't kidding about NYC. I lived there for years and still have no idea how someone who's wheelchair-bound can survive in that city. I'd be surprised if even a quarter of the subway stations have either ramps or elevators. 4y
Thndrstd @The_Penniless_Author I‘m with you. My wife had serious mobility issues when she was pregnant and we lived in NYC. Nightmare 4y
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Walking buddies 🐶🐶🧡

Freespirit 😊💕 5y
Hooked_on_books That‘s just too cute! How are they the same species? 😂 5y
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The subtitle does not do justice to the content of this book. This isn't a self-help, breathless cure-all for the world's ills, but rather a homage to walking and what we've lost to car culture. There's a whole chapter dedicated to disability where walking is redefined in an inclusive way, and an overarching look at how the loss of walking has devastated our sense of community.

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