In Praise of Walking

Fascinating ... O'Mara argues [walking] is intimately connected to our bodies, our brains, and ultimately how we exist as a species * The Times * In Praise of Walking is both informative and persuasive enough to rouse the most ardent couch potato - perhaps saving humanity before our lifestyle consumes our brains completely -- Jonathon Keats * New Scientist * Convincing and compelling ... In Praise of Walking is peppered with insights about everything from 19th-century poets and flaneurs to modern-day experiments with subjects playing video games in fMRI scanners * Sunday Times * Walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier ... [O'Mara] knows this not only through personal experience, but from cold, hard data * Observer * Full of insights... an accessible and thought-provoking discussion of walking as a key to human success -- Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain * Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain * A book that will leave you itching to go out for a good old-fashioned stroll * Mail on Sunday * A fascinating new book that examines the multitudinous benefits of this form of locomotion * Harper's Bazaar * Like a poem to walking... [and] the science that might help convince planners to prioritise walking as a means of getting around -- Lucy Whetman * UK Press Syndication * Forget apples. A walk a day really will keep the doctor away * Evening Standard * [In Praise of Walking] it provides an antidote to the many miseries that can accumulate because of our modern, sedentary lifestyle * Simple Things *