Astray

A History of Wandering

Eluned Summers-Bremner

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English

Reaktion Books
01 September 2023

History: specific events & topics; Walking, hiking, trekking; Travel & holiday

This book explores how, far from being limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning — a force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Roma, in the movements of today's refugees and in our attempts to preserve spaces of untracked online freedom, wandering is the means by which creativity and skills of adaptation are preserved in the interests of ongoing life. Astray is an enthralling look at belonging, and at notions of alienation and hope.

By: Eluned Summers-Bremner
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781789147049
ISBN 10: 1789147042
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eluned Summers-Bremner is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Insomnia: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2007).

Reviews for Astray: A History of Wandering

"""Moving from the ancient Aboriginal cosmology and Eurasian steppe nomadic culture to the Romany peoples and the movements of today's refugees, this alluring-sounding history examines ideas of belonging, alienation and hope.""-- ""Bookseller"""