returned to library

Could not get into it. Very boring. Thought it was gonna be about exploring new places and benefits of walking but it’s just about male historical figures that walked and their lives. So boring and also a bit sexist bc have women never walked?? Also every time the author refers to a nameless walker, he uses he/him pronouns. I can’t get past that either. Anyone can walk and gendering walking as a default male activity and using he/him as default human pronouns is incredibly sexist and I can’t stand to read shit like that. 

Well that was an interesting experiment. There are poetic  passages featuring the author's direct reflections on walking with which I could identify strongly. There were inclusions of certain philosophers and figures from history and their connection to walking that I found more or less informative. And then there were more spiritual leanings that had me gazing askance at the text, questioning the validity of their inclusion, as well as those prescriptive and proscriptive passages that felt like lectures on the proper way to walk, how to get the most benefit (verging into self help book territory) which had me rolling my eyes. What I found relatable or enlightening was too far outweighed by what I found redundant, heavy-handed or irrelevant. Can't recommend.