A walking life : reclaiming our health and our freedom one step at a time

Malchik, Antonia (author.). Foss, Eliza, (narrator.). Hachette Audio (Firm), (production company.). Playaway Digital Audio, (distributor.). Findaway World, LLC. (Added Author).

Summary: ""I'm going for a walk." How often has this phrase been uttered by someone with a heart full of anger or sorrow? Or as an invitation, a precursor to a declaration of love? Our species and its predecessors have been bipedal walkers for at least six million years -- yet how many of us still really just walk? 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?"--

Record details

ISBN: 1549181599
ISBN: 9781549181597
Physical Description: 1 audio media player (approximately 9 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Edition: Unabridged, [Playaway].
Publisher: Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2019]
Copyright: ℗2019

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from container. "HD." "Light." Previously released by Hachette Audio, ℗2019. Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Eliza Foss.
System Details Note:	Playaway Digital Audio.