Nicholson Geoff - Walking On Thin Air A Lifes Journey In 99 Steps - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Wherever he is and wherever he goes in the world he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects on the nature of walking why we do it how it benefits us and in some cases how it can damage and even destroy us. His recent diagnosis with a rare incurable form of cancer has made him all too aware of his own mortality. Sooner or later there will be a last step a last excursion a final drift for him just as there will be for all of us. Geoff vows to continue to walk for as long as he can. This moving vital book describes his own walks and relates them to the walks of street photographers artists and writers such as Garry Winogrand Diane Arbus Sophie Calle Jorge Luis Borges and Virginia Woolf among many others. Walking on Thin Air is a book about mortality and above all a celebration of being alive.
Title: Walking On Thin Air A Lifes Journey In 99 Steps
Author(s): Nicholson Geoff
Publisher: Saqi Books
Barcode: 9781908906571
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 2/6/2024
Category: Walking, Hiking, Trekking