Walking Life, by David Le Breton. Essay focused on how walking and the places where it is exercised, can allow us to change our experience of life. In this, the most recent book by the prolific French sociologist and anthropologist Le Breton, reflects on the contemporary dialectic between the human body and its socio-political and cultural context, which in recent years has been becoming increasingly relevant.

In Walking Life, the renowned anthropologist returns to one of the topics he is most passionate about to show us a new, interdisciplinary and very accessible approach to the experience of walking. Breaking with a routine life in excess, rediscovering the world through the body and contact with nature, surprising ourselves with small or large discoveries, or simply suspending the worries of everyday life for a few hours, are some of the benefits granted by a practice as old as accessible.

David Le Breton offers in this essay a new and extensive compendium of philosophical and literary legacies, from Basho to Thoreau or Peter Matthiessen, which evoke and explain, in a clear and direct language, the meaning and therapeutic virtues of walking in a world increasingly governed by technology, sedentary lifestyle and immobilization. A convincing plea to recover the desire for renewal, adventure and reunion through the walk.