The Lost Art of Walking

A Walking Bibliography

A bibliography of a thousand volumes begins with a single citation. But who would want a bibliography of a thousand volumes? I’ve therefore limited this list to items that are actually discussed in the text, or that I’ve genuinely used in writing the book. Literary works mentioned in passing, Ulysses, Swann’s Way, or Lessness, for example, are omitted, and their bibliographical details are surely easy enough to find elsewhere.

I’d been planning to write something on the subject of walking for a very long time. And then, in 2000, Rebecca Solnit published the book Wanderlust, subtitled ‘A History of Walking’, which got attention and good reviews, and which I approached reluctantly, afraid that the author might have said everything I wanted to say. Fortunately, and not so surprisingly, she didn’t. The book contains, for instance, a chapter called ‘Aerobic Sisyphus and the Suburbanized Psyche’, which made me tend to believe we weren’t on precisely the same walking path.

Then, in 2004, Joseph Amato published a book called On Foot, also, incredibly, subtitled ‘A History of Walking’, which again didn’t feel like direct competition. It has a chapter called ‘Choose Your Steps — Reflections on the Transformation of Walking from Necessity to Choice’.

Neither the Solnit book nor the Amato book contains a bibliography as such, but each has an extensive notes section: twenty-five pages in the case of Solnit, forty pages in the case of Amato. Amato says in his notes that Solnit’s book ‘proved useful’ to him. There’s obviously a serious temptation to strew footnotes all over a text about walking, but as you can see, I resisted.

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I’m aware of two texts called ‘The Art of Walking’. One is a short piece by Christopher Morley in the 1918 collection Shandygaff, subtitled ‘A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader’. Morley writes:

‘Now your true walker is mightily curious in the world’, and he goes upon his way zealous to sate himself with a thousand quaintnesses. When he writes a book he fills it full of food, drink, tobacco, the scent of sawmills on sunny afternoons, and arrivals at inns late at night.’

The other is an anthology titled The Art of Walking, actually rather slender, edited by Edwin Valentine Mitchell, and published in 1934. It contains works by many of the usual suspects — Dickens, Leslie Stephen’s ‘In Praise of Walking’, Max Beerbohm’s ‘Going Out for a Walk’, as well as a piece by Christopher Morley called ‘Sauntering’. Thus:

‘It is entrancing to walk…and catalogue all that may be seen. I jot down on scraps of paper a list of all the shops on a side street; the names of tradesmen that amuse me — the absurd repartee of gutter children. Why? Because it amuses me and that is sufficient excuse’.

It’s interesting to compare the contents of that anthology with those of a more recent one, The Vintage Book of Walking, edited by Duncan Minshull, published in 2004. Dickens, Stephen, Beerbohm all hold their places, though there’s no room for poor old Morley. It seems that even in the world of walking, of walking anthologies and walking bibliographies, there are no such things as eternal verites.

Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

— The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West. New York: Dutton, 1977.

Ainslie, Scott, and Dave Whitehill. Robert Johnson: At the Crossroads — the Authoritative Guitar Transcriptions. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Publishing, 1992.

Alstruther, Stephen. The Mindful Hiker: On the Trail to Find the Path. Camarillo, Calif.: DeVorss Publications, 2004.

Amato, Joseph A. OH Foot: A History of Walking. New York: New York University Press, 2004.

Arturian, Judy, and Mike Oldham. Movie Star Homes: The Famous to the Forgotten. Santa Monica, Calif.: Santa Monica Press, 2004.

Asian, Reza. No God But God. New York: Random House, 2005.

Atget, Eugene. Atget Paris. Carte Madera, Calif.: Gingko Press, 1992.

Auster, Paul. The New York Trilogy. New York: Penguin, 1987.

Banham, Peter Reyner. Scenes in America Deserta. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1982.

— Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Harmondsworth, England: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1971.

Baudrillard, Jean. America. Translated by Chris Turner. London: Verso, 1988.

Bean, J.P. The Sheffield Gang Wars. Sheffield, England: D and D, 1981.

Bein, Alex. The Jewish Question: Biography of a World Problem. Translated by Harry Zohn. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.

Bellos, David. Georges Perec, A Life in Words. London: Harvill Press, 1993.

Benjamin, Walter. ‘The Flaneur’ (1938). In Charles Baudelaire, A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism. Translated by Harry Zohn and Quintin Hoare. London: NLB, 1973.

— The Arcades Project. Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1999.

Bradbury, Ray. ‘The Pedestrian’ (1951). In Sis for Space. London: Hart-Davis, 1968.

Brinnin, John Malcolm. Dylan Thomas in America: An Intimate Journal. London: Dent, 1956.

Brook, Stephen. L.A. Lore. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992.

Brownlow, Kevin. ‘Brownlow on Beckett (on Keaton)’. In Film West 22, Autumn 1995.

Burton, Richard. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 3 vols. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855-57.

Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). New York: New York Review of Books, 2001.

Campbell, Ffyona. Feet of Clay: Her Epic Walk Across Australia. London: Heine-mann, 1991.

— On Foot Through Africa. London: Orion, 1994.

— The Whole Story, A Walk Around the World. London: Orion, 1996.

Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

— Farewell, My Lovely. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.

— The High Window. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

— The Lady in the Lake. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943.

— The Little Sister. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

— The Long Goodbye. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953.

— Playback. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958.

— Selected Letters. Edited by Frank MacShane. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.

Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines. London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.

— What Am I Doing Here. London: Jonathan Cape, 1989.

Clark, David. L.A. On Foot, a Free Afternoon. Los Angeles: Camaro Publishing, 1972.

Coverley, Merlin. Psychogeography London: Pocket Essentials, 2006.

Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage, 1992.

—, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and tfoe Imagination of Disaster. New York: Vintage, 1999.

Debord, Guy Ernest. Panegyric: Volumes 1 and 2 (1989 and 1997). Translated by James Brook and John McHale. London: Verso, 2004.

— Society of the Spectacle. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books, 1995.

—‘Theory of the Derive’. In Guy Debord and the Situationist International. Texts and Documents. Edited by Tom McDonough. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.

—‘Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography’ (1955). In The Situationist International Anthology. Translated by Ken Knabb. Berkeley, Calif.: Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006.

De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1862). Harmonds-worth, England: Penguin, 2003.

Dickens, Charles. ‘Night Walks’ (1860). Chapter XIII in The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1901.

Drummond, Bill. 45. London: Little, Brown, 2000.

Dunaway, David King. Huxley in Hollywood. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.

Duncan, Andrew. Secret London. London: New Holland Publishers, 1995.

Edmunds, Lowell. Martini Straight Up. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Fletcher, Colin. The Complete Walker. New York: Knopf, various editions from 1968 to 1984.

Foster, Lynn. Adventuring in the California Desert. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1987.

Francis, John. Planetwalker: How to Change Your World One Step at a Time. Point Reyes Station, Calif.: Elephant Mountain Press, 2005.

Freeman, Judith. The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007.

Fuchs, R.H. Richard Long. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986.

Gebhard, David, and Robert Winter. Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide. Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1994.

Gilden, Bruce. Facing New York: Photographs by Bruce Gilden. New York: power-House, 1992.

— Coney Island. New York: Trebruk, 2002.

— A Beautiful Catastrophe. New York: powerHouse, 2005.

Grant, James Augustus. A Walk Across Africa, or Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal. London: Blackwood, 1864.

Gray, Christopher. Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan’s Significant Buildings and Landmarks. New York: Abrams, 2003.

Gross, Miriam, ed. The World of Raymond Chandler. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.

Harmon, Ruth, and Minnis, John. Sheffield. New Haven and London: Pevsner City Guides, Yale University Press, 2004.

Harrison, Jim. ‘Westward Ho’. In The Beast God Forgot to Invent. New York: Grove, 2000.

Henson, Matthew. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912). New York: Invisible Cities, 2001.

Herzog, Werner. Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris 23 November-i4 December 1974. Translated by Marje Herzog and Alan Greenberg. New York: Tanam Press: 1980.

— Herzog on Herzog. Edited by Paul Cronin. London: Faber, 2002.

Hiney, Tom. Raymond Chandler. A Biography. London: Chatto and Windus, 1997.

Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle. Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2004.

Jarvis, Robin. Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel. London: Macmillan, 1997.

Jay, Ricky. Jay’s Journal of Anomalies. New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2003.

Jencks, Charles. Post-Modern Triumphs in London. London: Academy Editions, 1991.

Joyce, Julie, and Sandra Q. Firmin. Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007.

Kayton, Bruce. Radical Walking Tours of New York City. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003.

Kazin, Alfred. A Walker in the City. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951.

Keaton, Buster, with Charles Samuels. My Wonderful World of Slapstick. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960.

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. New York: Viking Press, 1957.

— Dharma Bums. New York: Viking Press, 1958.

Klein, Jim. The Complete Films of Buster Keaton. New York: Citadel Press, 1993.

Lawson, Kristan, and Anneli Rufus. California Babylon: A Guide to Sites of Scandal, Mayhem, and Celluloid in the Golden State. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000.

Lelyveld, Nita. ‘He Has His Walking Points: Neil Hopper Navigates the L.A. Area with His Feet’. Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2004.

Lewis, Percy Wyndham. The Childermass (1928). New York: Riverrun Press, 2000.

Long, Richard. Walking the Line. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2002.

— Richard Long: Selected Statements and Interviews. Edited by Ben Tufnell. London: Haunch of Venison, 2007.

— Walking and Marking. Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2007.

Machen, Arthur. The London Adventure or tfce Art of Wandering. London: Seeker, 1924.

MacShane, Frank. The Life of Raymond Chandler. New York: Dutton, 1976.

Mahoney, Erin. Walking In L.A. Berkeley, Calif.: Wilderness Press, 2005.

Manley, William Lewis. Death Valley in ‘49. San Jose, Calif.: Pacific Tree and Vine Co., 1894.

Minshull, Duncan. The Vintage Book of Walking. London: Vintage, 2000.

Mitchell, Edwin Valentine, ed. The Art of Walking (1934). Great Neck, N.Y.: Core Collection Books, Inc., 1978.

Morgan, Bill. The Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac’s City. San Francisco: City Lights, 1997.

Muybridge, Eadweard. The Human Figure in Motion (1901). New York: Dover, 1955.

Neil, Charles Lang. Walking: A Practical Guide to Pedestrianism for Athletes and Others. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1903.

O’Hara, Frank. Standing Still and Walking in New York. Bonias, Calif.: Grey Fox Press, 1975.

—‘Let’s Take a Walk’. In Selected Poems. Edited by Donald Allen. New York: Knopf/Vintage, 1974.

Olson, Brian, and Bonnie Olson. Tailing Philip Marlowe. St. Paul, Minn.-Burl-write, 2003.

Parr, Martin. Martin Parr. London and New York: Phaidon, 2002.

— The Phone Book. London: Rocket, 2002.

Peiper, Albrecht. Cerebral Function in Infancy and Childhood. London: Pitman Medical Publishers, 1963.

Poetzsch, Markus. ‘Walks Alone and ‘I Know Not Where’: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Deviant Pedestrianism’. Presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism: Deviance and Defiance, August 13–17, 2005.

Porter, Roy. London: A Social History. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994.

Radford, Peter. The Celebrated Captain Barclay: Sport, Gambling and Adventure in Regency Times. London: Headline, 2001.

Rice, Edward. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton. New York: Scribner, 1990.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Reveries of the Solitary Walker (1782). Translated by Charles E. Butterworth. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1992.

Rubenstein, Raphael. ‘Snap Judgments: Exploring the Winogrand Archive’. Art in America, February 2002.

Sacks, Oliver. A Leg to Stand On. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.

Sardar, Ziauddin. ‘How Mecca Became a Death Trap’. New Statesman, March 26, 1999.

Saward, Jeff. Labyrinths and Mazes: A Complete Guide to Magical Paths of the World. New York: Lark Books, 2003.

Sebald, W.G. The Rings of Saturn. Translated by Michael Hulse. London: Har-vill, 1998.

Sinclair, Iain. Lights Out for tfce Territory: 9 Excursions in tfee Secret History of London. London: Granta Books, 1997.

— London Orbital A Walk Around the Mis. London: Granta Books, 2002.

— Lud Heat. London: Albion Village Press, 1975.

Snow, Sebastian. The Rucksack Man. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.

Solnit, Rebecca. Wanderlust: A History of Walking. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.

— Motion Studies: Eadweard Muybridge and tfce Technological Wild West. London: Bloomsbury, 2003.

Speer, Albert. The Spandau Secret Diaries. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Macmillan, 1976.

Sutherland, John. ‘Clarissa’s Invisible Taxi’, in Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction. London: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Tatley, Roger. ‘In the Studio: Richard Long’. Art + Auction, February 2006.

Thom, Walter. Pedestrianism, or, an Account of the Performances of Celebrated Pedestrians During the Last and Present Century, with a Full Narrative of Captain Barclay’s Public and Private Matches, and an Essay on Training. Aberdeen: NP, 1808.

Thomson, David. The Big Sleep (BFI Film Classics). London: British Film Institute, 1997.

Thoreau, Henry David. ‘Walking’. Atlantic Monthly, June 1862.

Tomkins, Calvin. Duchamp: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

Underhill, Paco. Call of the Mall. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Van Dyke, John C. The Desert (1901). New York: Gibbs Smith, Scribners, 1980.

Waldie, D.J. Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

Ward, Elizabeth, and Alain Silver. Raymond Chandler’s Hollywood. Woodstock, NY.: Overlook Press, 1987.

Westbury, Virginia. Labyrinths: Ancient Paths of Wisdom and Peace. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2001.

Westerbeck, Colin, and Joel Meyerowitz. ‘Afterword: The Sidewalk Never Ends’. In Bystander: A History of Street Photography. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

White, Edmund. The Tl&neur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris. London: Bloomsbury, 2001.

Williams, George. Guide to Literary London. London: Batsford, 1973.

Wilson, Dick. The Long March: The Epic of Chinese Communism’s Survival. New York: Viking Press, 1972.

Winogrand, Garry. Figments from the Real World. Edited by John Szarkowski. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1988.

— 1964. Edited by Trudy Wilner Stack. Santa Fe, N.M.: Arena Editions, 2002.

Wood, Dennis. The Power of Maps. New York: Guilford Press, 1992.

Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. London: Hogarth Press, 1925.

—‘Oxford Street Tide’ (1931). In The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life. New York: Ecco, HarperCollins, 2006.

Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Wrigley, J.R. A Hillsborough Camera. Sheffield, England: Pickard Publishing, 2003.

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Zochert, Donald, ed. Walking in America. New York: Knopf, 1974.

SOME ONLINE SOURCES

A serious academic bibliography on walking, though with some unexpected and very welcome quirks, by Andie Miller of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Humanities/SLLS/Holistic/BibliographyWalking/

Neil Hopper’s website recording his walks around Los Angeles. http://www.walkinginla.com

A short bibliography of sources relating to psychogeography, from the sociology department of Manchester Metropolitan University. http://www.sociology.mmu.ac.uk/driftnet_bibliography.php

A bibliography and a collection of links and quotations compiled by Michael Garofalo. http://www.egreenway.com/wellbeing/walk.htm

A weblog about the uses of walking in art, including a bibliography, initiated by the Tate Modern, run by Ana Laura. http://walkart.wordpress.com/bibliography/

The people behind the walking tours of the parking lots of America. I’m still uncertain whether this is art pretending to be urban studies or vice versa, but the uncertainty is all part of the fun. http://temporarytraveloffice.net/main.html

This website, which I made, includes a small percentage of the visual materials I assembled while writing this book. http://www.flickr.eom/photos/32373413@N00/

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