Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Wherever he’s and wherever he goes on this planet, he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects at the nature of walking, why we do it, how it benefits us and, in some cases, how it can damage and even destroy us. Geoff’s contemporary diagnosis with a rare, incurable type of cancer has made him all too acutely aware of his own mortality. Someday there might be a last step, a last excursion, a final waft, for him just as there might be for all of us. Geoff vows to continue to walk for so 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.
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.
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