The pleasure of walking and strolling.

An opportunity to escape and delight in the present time and place, walking thumbs its nose at modernity. It is a side road within the frantic rhythm of our lives, a way to take a step back and sharpen our senses. Both a literary stroll and an invitation to stretch our legs, In Praise of Walking by David Le Breton is less an attempt to sketch out an "anthropology of the walker" than an attempt to practice anthropology through walking.