Walking Albuquerque

Walking Albuquerque
Author: Stephen Ausherman
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2015-02-16
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0899977685

Explore the most interesting, scenic, and historic places in Albuquerque, New Mexico, via 30 self-guided walking tours. Basking in an average of 310 days of sunshine per year, Albuquerque is a welcoming environment that offers walkable landscapes ranging from its wilderness edge to its industrial core. Yet, given Burque’s history and massive sprawl, navigating it on foot requires some guidance from an expert. That’s where Walking Albuquerque by local author and explorer Stephen Ausherman comes in handy. With 30 routes mapped out in the valley, the heights, and beyond, this first-of-its-kind comprehensive guidebook covers the entire city and surrounding areas. Whether strolling down neon-bedazzled avenues, promenading through Victorian neighborhoods, exploring volcanic vistas, or wandering the wooded banks of the Rio Grande, each trek is an enlightening excursion into Albuquerque’s deep history and richly diverse culture. You can experience the local art scene, indulge in exotic cuisine, visit sacred places, and enjoy more open space than any other city in America—nearly 3,000 square feet of parkland per person. Inside you’ll find: 30 self-guided walking tours of the city National landmarks and famous filming locations Hidden treasures that even locals don’t often know about Architecture, trivia, and more If you’re looking for a quick workout, a full day’s entertainment, or something in between, Walking Albuquerque will get you there. You’ll feel as if you’re being led by your closest friend. So find a route that appeals to you, and walk Albuquerque!

Wanderlust

Wanderlust
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2001-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1101199555

A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.

On Belonging

On Belonging
Author: Saira Niazi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre:
ISBN:

Returning to Lahore after almost a decade, wandering London guide and community worker Saira Niazi reflects on what it means to belong on both a personal and a universal level. In a series of personal essays on topics including exploration, love, faith, transience, mental health and being a woman of colour, Niazi shares her strange and unlikely journey towards becoming a wandering guide. She draws upon the stories, experiences, and insights of the extraordinary people she has met along the way, from monks and mudlarks to storytellers and scientists, and celebrates the many different kinds of beautiful lives that exist.

The Savannah Walking Tour and Guidebook

The Savannah Walking Tour and Guidebook
Author: Paul C. Bland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2010-01-29
Genre: Savannah (Ga.)
ISBN: 9780615346397

The Essential Guide to Historic Savannah including 4 Unique Walking Tours. Four carefully designed tours will guide you on a wonderful journey through Savannah. Historic photos, drawings and maps allow you to step back in time while experiencing her beauty today. The tours span her history from the earliest days as a British Colony to the modern day setting of books and movies.Not into walking? No problem. With the handy alphabetical index, this book doubles as a guidebook that provides information and historical insights for most destinations in the Historic District.

Wandering Through the White Mountains

Wandering Through the White Mountains
Author: Steven D. Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2004-08
Genre: Backpacking
ISBN: 9781931271141

In 42 articles covering a wide range of topics a veteran hiker and guidebook author shares his experiences from over a quarter-century of hiking in the Whites.--[Source inconnue].

Sierra de Aracena - a Walk! Guidebook

Sierra de Aracena - a Walk! Guidebook
Author: Brawn David Anthony
Publisher: Discovery Walking Guides Ltd
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781899554966

Introducing you to the beautiful region of Sierra de Aracena, this guidebook has 27 detailed walking routes backed by useful information. Every route has 1:40,000 scale colour mapping from Tour & Trail Map, plus GPS Waypoints for pinpoint navigational accuracy.

Rome and The Guidebook Tradition

Rome and The Guidebook Tradition
Author: Anna Blennow
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110615789

To this day, no comprehensive academic study of the development of guidebooks to Rome over time has been performed. This book treats the history of guidebooks to Rome from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century. It is based on the results of the interdisciplinary research project Topos and Topography, led by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota. From the case studies performed within the project, it becomes evident that the guidebook as a phenomenon was formed in Rome during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The elements and rhetorical strategies of guidebooks over time have shown to be surprisingly uniform, with three important points of development: a turn towards a more user-friendly structure from the seventeenth century and onward; the so-called ’Baedeker effect’ in the mid-nineteenth century; and the introduction of a personalized guiding voice in the first half of the twentieth century. Thus, the ‘guidebook tradition’ is an unusually consistent literary oeuvre, which also forms a warranty for the authority of every new guidebook. In this respect, the guidebook tradition is intimately associated with the city of Rome, with which it shares a constantly renovating yet eternally fixed nature.

Ways of Walking

Ways of Walking
Author: Tim Ingold
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780754673743

This exciting new volume focuses on how humans inhabit their environment, considering 'techniques of the body' and walking behaviours to better understand the variety of embodied meanings. Its original collection of work has contributions from anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and specialists in education and architecture offering a broad readership of new, innovative and previously overlooked ideas.

Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City (Mercury Guides)

Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City (Mercury Guides)
Author: Gary M. Devore
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2008-04-12
Genre: Rome (Italy)
ISBN: 0615194974

This guidebook is designed for tourists and scholars who are interested in exploring first-hand the grandeur and magnificence that was ancient Rome through a Humanist, secular, and freethinking lens. Twelve walking tours are designed around districts of the city. Two appendices also describe day trips that are possible from the city center: the ruins of Rome's port city of Ostia and the remains of the emperor Hadrian's splendid villa at Tivoli.