A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time Audiobook (Free)

For readers of On Trails: an incisive, utterly interesting exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being individual, how we’ve designed it out of our lives, and how it is vital that we reembrace it

‘I’m taking a walk.’ How often has this term been uttered by someone using a heart filled with anger or sorrow? Or simply because an invitation, a precursor to a declaration of love? Our species and its own predecessors have already been bipedal walkers for at least six million years; by now, we take this about A Walking Existence: Reclaiming OUR HEALTH AND WELLNESS and Our Independence One Step at the same time seemingly arbitrary movement for granted. Yet how many folks still actually walk in our everyday lives?

Driven by a combination of a car-centric lifestyle and an insatiable thirst for productivity and efficiency, we’re spending additional time sedentary and by itself than we ever have before. If bipedal strolling is truly what makes our species individual, as paleoanthropologists state, exactly what does it imply that we are developing walking correct out of our lives? Antonia Malchik asks important questions at the center of humanity’s progression and social constructions: Who reaches walk, and where? How did we lose the proper to walk, and what implications will that have for the strength of our communities, the continuing future of democracy, and the pervasive loneliness of specific lives?

The increased loss of walking as an individual and a community act gets the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom. But we are able to change the span of our flexibility. And we have to. Delving into a prosperity of science, history, and anecdote — from our deepest origins as hominins to our first techniques as babies, to universal design and social facilities, A Walking Life shows just how walking is essential, and exactly how deeply reliant our brains and body are upon this basic pedestrian work — and how exactly we can reclaim it.