![]() ![]() ![]() The text itself becomes a winding journey of discovery at a leisurely pace, with detours along alluring paths that suddenly appear, and with stops to get an overview of the intellectual landscape. Instead, she is interested in walking for other purposes and takes the reader on an educational journey through the history of ideas from – roughly – the Enlightenment to the present day. This is still the case for a large part of the world’s population.īut it is not the pure function of getting from point A to point B that occupies Rebecca Solnit in her classic study Wanderlust. In the absolute dominant part of human history, wandering has been done out of necessity, because it has been the only means of transportation available. ![]()
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