Bookshop List
Books I wasn’t able to include on the Bookshop list, but I would also recommend:
- Ways to Wander by Clare Qualmann (Editor), Claire Hind (Editor) – a book of scores (directions for walking)
- Prompts for Participatory Walks edited by Todd Shalom – this is really great for those interested in group walks (has a link to the free PDF download on this page)
- Walk Ways by Tom Marioni (2002)
- The Art of Walking: A Field Guide. by David Evans. ISBN: 978-1907317873
- The Vintage Book of Walking, edited by Duncan Minshull. Random House UK, 2000.
- On Procession edited by Rebecca Uchill
- Through the Labyrinth by Herman Kern. ISBN: 978-3791321448
- The Situationists and the City: A Reader. edited by Tom McDonough. ISBN: 9781844673643
- Walking Detroit by JeeYeun Lee. ISBN: 9780578717845
- Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking by Dieter Roelstraete (2010). ISBN: 978-1846380587
- London Walking: a Handbook for Survival by Simon Pope (2001). ISBN: 978-1841660561
- Iain Sinclair has several books about walking, such as London Orbital in which he walks the M25 highway that encircles London
- Pacing by Francis Alÿs (2014). ISBN: 978-84-941462-6-8
Articles
- Sandals, Leah. “Step by Step: Artists Walk to Resist Colonization, Ableism and More” in canadianart. June 22, 2017
- Chan, Michelle. “Walk With Me,” Frieze. September 7, 2017.
- Morrell, Amish (editor). C Magazine. Spring 2014 edition.
- “Theory of the Dérive,” first published in Internationale Situationniste #2 (Paris, December 1958): Debord-Theory_Of_The_Derive
- Gleber, Anke. “Female Flanerie and the Symphony of the City.” Women in the metropolis : gender and modernity in Weimar culture. Ed. Katharina von Ankum. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
- Hammergren, Lena. “The Re-turn of the flâneuse.” Corporealities. Ed. S. L. Foster. New York and London: Routledge, 1996: 53-67.
- Jabr, Ferris. “Why Walking Helps us Think ” The New Yorker (2014)
- How walking helps…
Novels/Other writings about walking that are popular:
- Open City by Teju Cole.
- The Salt Path: A Memoir by Raynor Winn
- The Walk by Robert Walser (tedious, but I can see how some might enjoy the stream of consciousness approach)
- The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (haven’t read it)
Poets, Essayists, Scholars, Artists, and Novelists who write/wrote about walking or are/were known for walking:
- Peter Ackroyd
- Joseph Amato, On Foot: A History of Walking
- Li Bai
- JG Ballard
- Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Charles Baudelaire
- Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
- Anna Best, Occasional Sights
- William Blake
- André Breton
- David Le Breton
- John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
- Elizabeth Carter
- Michel De Certeau
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Linda Cracknell
- Guy Debord, The Theory of the Dérive
- Daniel Defoe
- T.S. Eliot
- Lauren Elkin
- Robert Frost
- Du Fu
- Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
- Frédéric Gros
- Alyson Hallett
- Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt
- Franz Hessel
- Stewart Home
- Jean-Louis Hue
- Joris-karl Huysmans
- Tim Ingold
- Ikkyu
- Franz Kafka
- Satish Kumar, Spiritual Compass
- Arthur Machen
- Robert Macfarlane
- Harriet Martineau
- Doreen Massey, For Space
- John Muir, A thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf
- Anaïs Nin
- Thomas De Quincey
- Nicholas Royle
- Dan Rubinstein
- Will Self
- Nan Shepherd
- Iain Sinclair
- Phil Smith
- Mary Soderstrom
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Maureen Stone, Black Woman Walking
- Cheryl Strayed
- Henry David Thoreau
- Karen Till
- Jo Vergunst
- Ellen Weeton
- Walt Whitman
- Virginia Woolf
- Dorothy Wordsworth
- William Wordsworth