Synopsis
Running is not just a sport. It is the breaking down of our increasingly structured and demanding lives. It affords us the freedom to step off life’s pathways and into the bracken. In a world that is a constant onslaught of information, alienating us from our environment and ourselves, running reconnects us, lifts the spirit and allows our minds out to play.
Footnotes will take you out to tread London’s streets, climbing to sites that have seen a millennium of hangings, or down the crumbling alleyways of Ruskin's Venice. It will transport you to the cliff tops of Hardy's Dorset, the deserted shorelines of Seattle, the giant redwood forests of California and the glacial debris of Scott's Edinburgh, using debates in literature, philosophy and biology to explore that simple human desire to run.
Liberating and inspiring, this book will remind you why feeling the earth beneath our feet is a necessary and healing part of our lives.
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About the Author
Vybarr Cregan-Reid is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Kent. He has a popular blog, psychojography.com, and has written on running for the Guardian, Telegraph, Literary Review and the BBC. He has also written numerous articles and essays for academic journals and a book on Victorian culture. @vybarr
Review
"A wonderfully subtle and ambitious book" -- P.D. Smith * Guardian * "Insightful and intoxicating. Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book makes you take your shoes off and run through a world of ideas about nature." -- Lynne Truss "Delightful" * The Times Literary Supplement * "Footnotes is a blazing achievement." -- Kate Norbury * Caught by the River * "Few have done it so artfully and completely." -- Oliver Balch * Literary Review *
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