Footnotes by Vybarr Cregan-Reid - ISBN: 9780091960209
Paperback
Run free: Discover nature, freedom, and the power of running.

Footnotes

How Running Makes Us Human

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    15 June 2017

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Summary

A meditation on running, nature and the pursuit of freedom in the modern world.

Running is not just a sport. It reconnects us to our bodies and the places in which we live, breaking down our increasingly structured and demanding lives. It allows us to feel the world beneath our feet, lifts the spirit, allows our minds out to play and helps us to slip away from the demands of the modern world.

When Vybarr Cregan-Reid set out to discover why running meant so much to so many, he …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780091960209
ISBN-10:0091960207
Author:Vybarr Cregan-Reid
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Imprint:Ebury Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:15 June 2017
Weight:246g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 20mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Delightful

A wonderfully subtle and ambitious book – P.D. Smith * Guardian *
Insightful and intoxicating. Vybarr Cregan-Reid’s book makes you take your shoes off and run through a world of ideas about nature. – Lynne Truss
Delightful * The Times Literary Supplement *
Footnotes is a blazing achievement. – Kate Norbury * Caught by the River *
Few have done it so artfully and completely. – Oliver Balch * Literary Review *
Here is a book in which the striding energy of the prose matches its subject. – Iain Sinclair
Wonderfully authoritative vindication of what ought to be a self-evident truth: that running should be about being alive, not being a consumer. * Richard Askwith - author of Running Free: A Runner’s Journey Back to Nature *
It’s hard to imagine a more compelling or poetic running companion than Vybarr Cregan-Reid. He inspires us not just to run, but to be truly alive while we are doing it. – Scarlett Thomas
A brilliant, broad-ranging and beautiful book. Like a great run into a wild landscape, it opens the heart and the mind, taking you off into the unknown, delighting at every turn and returning you changed for the better. – Rob Cowen - author of Common Ground

About The Author

Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Vybarr Cregan-Reid is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Kent. He has written on running for the Guardian, Telegraph, Literary Review and the BBC. He has also written numerous articles and essays for academic journals and a book on Victorian culture.

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