In Stock
Astray
Hardback
€21.60
Collect 64 Reward Points
- Free Delivery from
- This Book Is Available Online Only
- Book Synopsis
- This book explores how, far from being limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning, as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Rom, in the movements of today's refugees and in our attempts to preserve spaces of untracked online freedom, wandering is the means by which creativity and skills of adaptation are preserved in the interests of ongoing life. Astray is an enthralling look at belonging, and at notions of alienation and hope.
- About The Author
- Eluned Summers-Bremner is a writer and editor. She is the author of Insomnia: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2007) and Ian McEwan: Sex, Death, and History.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9781789147049
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, (01 May 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 323
- Weight
- 550 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 x 32 mm
- Categories: