Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit

Wanderlust (Granta) is a history of walking by Rebecca Solnit, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece, to the poets of the Romantic age, to the great ascents of mountaineers. With the weather, for the moment, brightening and the restrictions on lockdown, for the moment, gently easing, we’ve been enjoying taking our lady pelvis out on slightly longer walks, noticing more than ever the significance of putting one foot in front of the other.

Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian and activist. She is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster — including A Field Guide To Getting Lost, Hope In The Dark, Men Explain Things To Me and her most recent memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence.

Rebecca Solnit spoke to Jude Kelly for Women of the World about what the Coronavirus pandemic can teach us about hope, which you can watch back here.