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Antonia Malchik

    Antonia Malchik offers profound explorations into the role of walking in human society, examining its past and future and its significance for our shared humanity. Through essays and articles for prominent publications, she delves into this theme with keen insight and literary grace. Her work highlights how this seemingly simple act connects people across time and cultures. Readers can anticipate reflections on this fundamental aspect of our existence.

    A Walking Life
    • A Walking Life

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.8(312)Add rating

      Driven by a combination of a car-centric culture and an insatiable thirst for productivity and efficiency, we're spending more time sedentary and alone than we ever have before. If bipedal walking is truly what makes our species human, as paleoanthropologists claim, what does it mean that we are designing walking right out of our lives? Antonia Malchik asks essential questions at the center of humanity's evolution and social structures: Who gets to walk, and where? How did we lose the right to walk, and what implications does that have for the strength of our communities, the future of democracy, and the pervasive loneliness of individual lives? -Amazon

      A Walking Life