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The Last Great Walk by Wayne Curtis
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Sep 09, 2014 | ISBN 9781609613723

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“There is a lot in our busy, hyperconnected modern world that can be solved by walking. Taking long walks can improve our well-being, boost cognitive performance and creativity, and help us tap into our wisdom and capacity for wonder. Wayne Curtis’s colorful recounting of Edward Payson Weston’s 1909 walk across America is a timely and inspiring reminder of what we stand to gain physically and spiritually by simply walking.” —Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group

“Smart, engaging, and tremendously fun to read, The Last Great Walk introduces us to Edward Payson Weston, probably the greatest, if forgotten, walker of modern times, and reminds us, gently but persuasively, that all of us, as humans, are born to walk.” —Gretchen Reynolds, author of the New York Times Phys Ed column and The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer

“Animated by the once sensational, now-forgotten ‘last walk’ of a turn-of-the-century championship pedestrian–yes, they existed–Wayne Curtis has gifted us with a kind of metaphysical self-help book, good for mind, body, and the national soul. An impassioned celebration of what makes us human.” —Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

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