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Desire Paths: ?Real Walks to Nonreal ..., Bayfield, Roy

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Title
Desire Paths: ?Real Walks to Nonreal Places
ISBN
191119304X
EAN
9781911193043
Type
Paperback / softback
Binding
Paperback / softback
Date of Publication
20161115
Publication Name
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Release Title
Desire Paths: ?Real Walks to Nonreal Places
Artist
Bayfield, Roy
Brand
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Colour
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Publication Year
2016
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Desire Paths: Real Walks to Nonreal Places
Item Height
229mm
Author
Roy Bayfield
Publisher
Triarchy Press
Genre
Sports
Item Width
152mm
Number of Pages
142 Pages

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Unpromisingly - for a walking book - Desire Paths begins on a hospital gurney as the author prepares for open heart surgery. Thereafter, it dances back and forth in place and time between an array of obscurely connected walks that Roy has undertaken over the years. Among the book's many characters and diversions are Wetherspoons, Capt. Picard, the Navy Cut sailor, the buried 'Spirit of Brighton', Wendy Craig, Harrods, Buddhism's Six Realms of Desire, 'Things to Do...' tourist brochures, Argleton redux, the abyss, strip-lynchets, punk residues, Milton Keynes, multiple identities and an inkling of what the future may hold for thoughtful walkers.Each chapter starts with a quote from Phil Smith's Mythogeography, specifically from the 'Legend' given in that book - 'legend' as in a set of definitions of symbols used on maps to define landscape features. Roy uses these symbols to organise the book. The main body of each chapter is an account of a walking journey he has done. These are not chronological: structuring the book around the mythogeography Legend has (dis)organised the walks into a sequence that wanders in and out of time. Towards the end of each chapter, Roy reflects on a Landscape Feature that corresponds to the Legend - exploring the workability (or playability) of mythogeographical concepts and illustrating how they have manifested in his own walking. Finally, the Jump Over the Back Fence notes in each chapter suggest further actual walks which readers could make.

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Publisher
Triarchy Press
ISBN-13
9781911193043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Desire Paths: Real Walks to Nonreal Places
Author
Roy Bayfield
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Sports
Number of Pages
142 Pages

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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Roy Bayfield
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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