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G
ENERAL
B
IOGRAPHY

Joseph Amata,
On Foot: A History of Walking
, NYU Press, 2004.

Geoff Nicholson,
The Lost Art of Walking; The History, Science and Literature of Pedestrianism
, Riverhead Trade, 2009.

Rebecca Solnit,
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
, Penguin Books, 2001.

Henry David Thoreau,
Walking
, Watchmaker Publishing, 2010.

2. F
REEDOMS

Jack Kerouac,
The Dharma Bums
, Penguin Modern Classics, 2000.

Swami Ramdas,
In Quest of God: The Saga of an Extraordinary Pilgrimage
, Blue Dove Press, 1994.

Gary Snyder,
The Practice of the Wild
, Counterpoint, 2010.

Heinrich Zimmer,
Philosophies of India
, Princeton University Press, 1969.

3. W
HY
I A
M
S
UCH A
G
OOD
W
ALKER –
N
IETZSCHE

R. J. Hollingdale,
Nietzsche: The Man and his Philosophy
, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Friedrich Nietzsche,
Ecce Homo
, tr. Duncan Large, Oxford World's Classics, 2009.

Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘The Wanderer and His Shadow', Part II of
Human, All Too Human
, tr. R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Gay Science
, tr. Walter Kaufmann, Vintage, 1974.

Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Case of Wagner
&
The Birth of Tragedy
, tr. Walter Kaufmann, Random House, 2010.

Friedrich Nietzsche,
Thus Spake Zarathustra
, tr. Thomas Common, Dover Books, 2000.

Friedrich Nietzsche,
Selected Letters
, tr. Christopher Middleton, Hackett Publishing Co, 1996.

Rüdiger Safranski,
Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
, tr. Shelley Frisch, W. W. Norton, 2003.

6. T
HE
P
ASSION FOR
E
SCAPE –
R
IMBAUD

Alain Borer, Rimbaud
in Abyssinia
, tr. Rosmarie Waldrop, William Morrow & Co., 1991.

Arthur Rimbaud,
Complete Works
, tr. Paul Schmidt, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008.

Arthur Rimbaud,
I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud
, tr. Wyatt Mason, Modern Library, 2004.

Graham Robb,
Rimbaud
, Pan Macmillan, 2001.

7. S
OLITUDES

Henry David Thoreau,
Walden (Or Life in the Woods)
, Wilder Publications, 2008.

8. S
ILENCES

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837–1861
, NYRB Classics, 2009.

Robert Louis Stevenson,
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
&
The Amateur Emigrant
, Penguin Classics, 2004.

9. T
HE
W
ALKER
'
S
W
AKING
D
REAMS –
R
OUSSEAU

Maurice Cranston,
The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity
, University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Maurice Cranston,
The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754–1762
, University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Leo Damrosch,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Mon Portrait
, Jules Ravenel, 1834;
thelinguist.com
.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Confessions
, tr. Angela Scholar, Oxford World's Classics, 2000.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
, tr. Anon, Dover, 2004.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
, tr. Russell Goulbourne, Oxford World's Classics, 2011.

10. E
TERNITIES

Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Nature
, Penguin Books, 2008.

11. C
ONQUEST OF THE
W
ILDERNESS –
T
HOREAU

Henry David Thoreau,
Life Without Principle
, Forgotten Books, 2008.

Henry David Thoreau,
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
, Wilder Publications, 2008.

Henry David Thoreau,
Slavery in Massachusetts
, Forgotten Books, 2008.

Henry David Thoreau,
Walden (Or Life in the Woods)
, Wilder Publications, 2008.

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837–1861
, NYRB Classics, 2009.

Henry David Thoreau,
Walking
, Watchmaker Publishing, 2010.

12. E
NERGY

Luther Standing Bear,
Land of the Spotted Eagle
(1933), University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

T. C. McLuhan,
Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence
, Promontory Press, 1971.

Sylvain Tesson,
The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga
, tr. Linda Coverdale, Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013.

Henry David Thoreau,
A Winter Walk
, Theophania Publishing, 2012.

14. R
EGENERATION AND
P
RESENCE

Lama Anagarika Govinda,
The Way of the White Clouds
, Rider, 2006.

15. T
HE
C
YNIC
'
S
A
PPROACH

R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé,
The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy
, University of California Press, 2000.

The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian
, tr. Robert Dobbin, Penguin Classics, 2013.

Diogenes the Cynic,
Sayings and Anecdotes with Other Popular Moralists
, tr. Robin Hard, 2012.

Epictetus,
Discourses and Selected Writings
, tr. Robert Dobbin, Penguin Classics, 2008.

Michel Foucault,
The Courage of Truth (Lectures at the College de France)
, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Diogenes Laertius,
Lives of Eminent Philosophers
, Volumes I–II, tr. R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, 1925.

Plato,
Phaedrus
, tr. Christopher Rowe, Penguin Classics, 2005.

Xenophon,
Memorabilia
, tr. Amy C. Bonnette, Cornell University Press, 2001.

17. M
ELANCHOLY
W
ANDERING –
N
ERVAL

Gérard de Nerval,
Selected Writings
, tr. Richard Sieburth, Penguin Classics, 1999.

Solomon Alhadef Rhodes,
Gérard de Nerval, 1808-1855: Poet, Traveler, Dreamer
, Philosophical Library, 1951.

18. A D
AILY
O
UTING

Thomas De Quincey,
Last Days of Immanuel Kant and Other Writings
, Ulan Press, 2012.

Manfred Kuehn,
Kant: A Biography
, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Rodolphe Töepffer,
Voyages en zigzag
, Hoëbeke, 1996.

Michel Vieuchange,
Smara
:
carnets de route
, Payot, 1996.

19. S
TROLLS

Marcel Proust,
In Search of Lost Time
, tr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and T. Kilmartin, 6 vols, Modern Library Classics, 2003.

Karl Gottlob Schelle,
L'Art de se promener
, tr. Pierre Deshusses, Payot & Rivages, 1996.

20. P
UBLIC
G
ARDENS

Pierre Corneille,
The Liar
, tr. David Ives, Shakespeare Theatre Company ReDiscovery Series, Smith and Kraus, 2010.

Evaristo Gherardi,
Arlequin aux Tuileries
&
Les Promenades de Paris
, in
Le Théâtre italien de Gherardi
, J. B. Cusson and P. White, 1700.

For more on Gherardi and the Tuileries, see Michael Conan,
Performance and Appropriation: Profane Rituals in Gardens and Landscapes
, Dumbarton Oaks, 2007.

Charles Sorel,
Polyandre: Histoire comique
(1648), Klincksieck, 2010.

The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère
, tr. Henri Van Laun, Scribner & Welford, 1885;
bartleby.com
.

21. T
HE
U
RBAN
F
LÂNEUR

Louis Aragon,
Paris Peasant
, tr. Simon Watson-Taylor, Exact Exchange, 1999.

Charles Baudelaire,
Complete Poems
, tr. Walter Martin, Carcanet, 2007.

Charles Baudelaire,
Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose
, tr. Keith Waldrop, Wesleyan University Press, 2010.

Walter Benjamin,
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire
, various translators, Harvard University Press, 2006.

Walter Benjamin,
Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
, Verso Books, 1977.

André Breton,
Nadja
, tr. Richard Howard, Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, 1999.

Guy Debord,
The Society of the Spectacle
, tr. D. Nicholson-Smith, Zone Books, 1994.

Thierry Paquot,
Art of the Siesta: A Book About Stealing Moments of Repose
, tr. Ken Hollings, Universe, 2005.

22. G
RAVITY

Michael F. Cleary,
The Essential Tao: An Initiation into Taoism through the Authentic Tao Te Ching and the Inner Teachings of Chuang-Tzu
, Harper San Francisco, 1991.

See also complete translation of the
Zhuangzi
by Nina Correa, at
daoisopen.com
.

24. M
YSTIC AND
P
OLITICIAN –
G
ANDHI

Louis Fischer,
Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World
, Signet Classics, 2010.

Mohandas K. Gandhi,
Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)
, Dover Publications, 2001.

Mohandas K. Gandhi,
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
, Navajivan Publishing, 2008.

Mohandas K. Gandhi,
Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.

Betsy Kuhn,
The Force Born of Truth
, Twenty-First Century Books, 2011.

Webb Miller,
I Found No Peace: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent
, Literary Guild, 1936.

Jawaharlal Nehru,
Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru
, The John Day Company, 1942.

25. R
EPETITION

Alexandra David-Neel,
Magic and Mystery in Tibet
, Souvenir Press, 2007.

Psalms of Maratha Saints: One Hundred and Eight Hymns Translated from the Marathi by Nicol Macnicol
[
1920
], Cornell University Library, 2009.

Michel de Montaigne,
Essays
, tr. John. M. Cohen, Penguin Books, 1993.

Charles Péguy,
Présentation de la Beauce à Notre-Dame de Chartres
, Gallimard, 1946.

The Philokalia
, tr. K. Ware and P. Sherrard, 4 vols, Faber and Faber, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1999.

The Way of a Pilgrim & A Pilgrim Continues His Way
, tr. Olga Savin, Shambhala, 2001.

William Wordsworth,
The Major Works: Including
The Prelude, Oxford World's Classics, 2008.

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