{"id":45804,"date":"2019-09-13T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45804"},"modified":"2019-08-30T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T19:05:46","slug":"a-walking-life-reclaiming-our-health-and-our-freedom-one-step-at-a-time-by-antonia-malchik-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-walking-life-reclaiming-our-health-and-our-freedom-one-step-at-a-time-by-antonia-malchik-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time by Antonia Malchik [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45642\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Walking-Life-Antonia-Malchik-BookDragon-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Walking-Life-Antonia-Malchik-BookDragon-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Walking-Life-Antonia-Malchik-BookDragon.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>C\u2019mon: grab that headset, hit play, get out, and let Antonia Malchik and Eliza Foss convince you why you should be walking. Foss is an ideally persuasive companion to journalist Malchik, whose debut title proves how \u201cwalking is essential to our physical health and creativity, to children\u2019s brain development, to mental well-being throughout our lives, and to your understanding of our place in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decades of urban living has limited Malchik\u2019s movement: \u201cdriven by a combination of car-centric culture and an insatiable thirst for productivity and efficiency, we have been designing walking out of our lives for nearly a century.\u201d She\u2019s not alone: not walking has created devastating consequences to both humanity and the environment. Malchik, however, is no Pollyanna, confronting obstacles including physical disabilities, \u201cWalking While Black,\u201d and ever-increasing anti-pedestrian urban planning (Foss clearly enjoys voicing Malchik\u2019s disdain for the recent invention of \u201cnonsensical\u201d jaywalking).<\/p>\n<p>Despite challenges, with anthropological, social, political, cultural history on her side, Malchik remains committed to getting us moving. \u201cWe have always walked the planet\u201d: as wanderers and seekers, as refugees and protesters, and most ubiquitously, as humans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/A-Walking-Life-\/pid=9724497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C\u2019mon: grab that headset, hit play, get out, and let Antonia Malchik and Eliza Foss convince you why you should be walking. 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