I. The Pace of Thoughts 1
1. Tracing a Headland: An Introduction 3
2. The Mind at Three Miles an Hour 14
3. Rising and Falling: The Theorists of Bipedalism 30
4. The Uphill Road to Grace: Some Pilgrimages 45
5. Labyrinths and Cadillacs: Walking into the Realm of the Symbolic 64
II. From the Garden to the Wild 79
6. The Path Out of the Garden 81
7. The Legs of William Wordsworth 104
8. A Thousand Miles of Conventional Sentiment: The Literature of Walking 118
9. Mount Obscurity and Mount Arrival 133
10. Of Walking Clubs and Land Wars 148
III. Lives of the Streets 169
11. The Solitary Stroller and the City 171
12. Paris, or Botanizing on the Asphalt 196
13. Citizens of the Streets: Parties, Processions, and Revolutions 214
14. Walking After Midnight: Women, Sex, and Public Space 232
IV. Past the End of the Road 247
15. Aerobic Sisyphus and the Suburbanized Psyche 249
16. The Shape of a Walk 267
17. Las Vegas, or the Longest Distance Between Two Points 277.
