{"product_id":"walking-henry-david-thoreau-9789351285106","title":"Walking","description":"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understoodthe art of Walking, that is, of taking walks-who had a genius, so to speak, forsauntering, which word is beautifully derived \"from idle people who roved aboutthe country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going à laSainte Terre,\" to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, \"There goes a SainteTerrer,\" a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in theirwalks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do gothere are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, wouldderive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in thegood sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere.For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all thetime may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is nomore vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seekingthe shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the mostprobable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter theHermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of theInfidels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry David Thoreau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9351285103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789351285106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gyan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.08d","brand":"Henry David Thoreau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045531250943,"sku":"9789351285106","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9bae2eb7-3cf4-4782-8f41-21b4b54ec80c.jpg?v=1684979310","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walking-henry-david-thoreau-9789351285106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}